Figurative Language
This type of figurative language compares two things using “like” or “as.”
What is a simile?
Who is the Author of The Tell Tale Heart?
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
This part of the plot introduces the characters, setting, and background information.
What is the exposition/Introduction?
This figurative language gives human qualities to animals or objects.
What is personification?
What was annoying to the Narrator?
What was the Old Man's Vulture Eye?
This part of the plot shows events after the climax as the story begins to wrap up.
What is falling action?
I’m so hungry I could eat a horse!” is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is hyperbole?
How did the narrator Kill the old man?
He smothered him with a mattress and chopped up his body.
This is the most exciting or intense moment in the story where the conflict reaches its peak.
What is the climax?
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Why were the police called to the narrators house?
Because the neighbors heard a scream.
What is rising action?
Buzz, crash, boom!” are examples of this type of figurative language.
What is onomatopoeia?
Why did the narrator give himself up to the police?
This final stage of the plot reveals how the conflict is solved and the story ends.
What is the resolution?