Text Structure/Figurative Language
The point-of-view the story is written in
What is the first-person point of view
The reason why the narrator wants to kill the old man
What is because of his eye?
The narrator's name in "The Tell-Tale Heart"
What is he has no name?
The text structure the narrator uses to tell the story.
What is chronological order/sequence order?
The narrator does this every night for a week.
What is watch the old man sleep?
This represents the narrator's guilt and is a reminder of his crime.
What is the old man's heartbeat?
What is suspense?
Where the narrator tells the police officers the old man went.
What is to the city?
The old man does this to the police officers at the end of the story.
What is confesses to killing the old man?
This kind of figurative language is being used in the following sentence: "One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture- a pale blue eye, with a film over it."
What is a metaphor?
The reason why the narrator confesses to his crime.
What is he hears the beating heart?
This quote is an example of the following text structure:
"Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell."
What is description?
On this night, the narrator kills the old man
What is the 8th night?