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    Cruz September 18‚ 2013 Crime & Mystery H Mrs. Zamora Period 1 Group Meeting #1 For our first group meeting we immediately went over all the discussion questions. Many challenging points were discussed especially when it came to the Tell-Tale Heart short story. Questions like “why did the narrator wait until the eighth night to kill the old man with the eye‚ instead of the first or second night?” and “Who do you think the narrator is telling this story too”? Some group members claimed the

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    Edgar Allan Poe wrote that the single effect was the most important aspect of a short story that everything must contribute to this effect. Poe’s short story “The Black Cat” was written trying to achieve an effect of insanity. In this first person narrative the narrator tells of his decline from sanity to madness‚ all because of an obsession with two black cats. These creatures finally drive him to kill his wife‚ whose death he unsuccessfully tries to hide. This short story easily achieved the effect

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    Poe ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ written in the year 1843. In this story‚ the writer develops the theme of the mystery of human consciousness‚ using specific motifs and artistic techniques‚ mentioned in previously written stories. The meaning of the literary work is to impress the reader by forcing him to experience the scary feelings while reading the stories of Edgar Poe. The vivid example of the implementation of the principle of the aesthetic Poe’s effect is the story ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’. The effect

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    a psychopath then maybe this will change your mind. (Poe)The narrator of the story "Tell Tale Heart" is a psychopath because he can’t stay calm while the police officers were sitting down. Another reason is that he wasn’t able to wait for the old man to go back to sleep on the eighth night. A third reason is that he suffocated the old man with his own mattress‚ then cut him up shortly after.(Poe) Tale Tell Heart is by Edgar Allen poe‚ it has a middle aged man along with an old man. The narrator

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    Literary Devices of Tell-Tale Heart The first literary device Poe uses in Tell-Tale Heart is time of day. Although not specific‚ “Tell-Tale Heart” seems to be set within a house shared by the old man and his killer. In (538:1) he uses the literary device of time of day; “And every night‚ about midnight‚ I turned the latch of his door and open it-oh so gently!”. Another time of day is in (538:1); “And this I did for seven long nights- every night just at midnight”. The night time observance of

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    Jack Mitchell Mr. Glen Smith English1302 Oct 10‚2012 Compare/Contrast Essay Assignment #2 The unnamed narrator in Edgar Allan Poe’s “A Tell- Tale Heart” and the chambermaid in the Grimm Brothers “The Goose Girl” both possess strikingly similar characteristics. Both show aggression and use violence to get what they want but are very careful of how they go about it and covering it up. In Poe’s story‚ the unnamed narrator kills an elderly man that he is caring for because the old man has a

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    Jessica Clark Matthew Chase English Comp 2 MWF 10:00AM October 3rd‚ 2011 A Guilty Conscience Shown in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe is an intellectual murder story told from a first-person perspective of an eccentric narrator who kills a man because he is so frightened of the man’s eye. The mad narrator ultimately is unable to maintain his innocence to the deed. The narrator is obsesses with the vulture eye of the old man who he lives with

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    I strongly believe that the caretaker/narrator of Edgar Allen Poe’s A Tell Tale Heart is insane for he killed the old man he was taking care of. One reason why the narrator is a bit wrong in the mind is that he took so much pride in planning and executing the murder. For 7 days and nights he would go the old man’s room‚ spend an hour just putting his head in door‚ to spy on him. When the police came shortly after the deed was done‚ the narrator showed them gleefully around the house‚ saying that

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    Poe’s use of disturbing diction‚ vivid imagery‚ and figurative language create the tone of menace in the passage because these words and images remind readers of darkness‚ terror and danger. Poe uses disturbing diction throughout the poem‚ Tell Tale Heart‚ to create a menacing tone. The author’s diction also produces a sense of suspense for the readers and keeps them plotting what will happen next. Poe achieves this by the use of his vivid verbs and specific nouns‚ like the verb “stalked” and the

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    Аширбекова Шолпан‚ ПД-11-1 "The Black Cat" is a famous short story from horror-master Edgar Allan Poe. It was first printed on August 19‚ 1843‚ in the Philadelphia edition of a newspaper called the United States Saturday Post. We think a newspaper is a perfect place for it. This lurid tale reads like something right out of the headlines – bizarre headlines to be sure. Gruesome news items were just as popular in Poe’s time as they are in ours. Like many news stories‚ "The Black Cat" can be a downer. Stripped

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