The Tell-Tale Heart

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The Tell-Tale Heart

• Edgar Allan Poe

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Plot

• Draw a simple timeline of events, as the narrator
  describes them.
• Highlight the points of the story that may NOT be
  true.
• Give evidence to support your conclusion.

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Character

• Along the bottom of the same timeline, draw a
  line graph that represents the narrators
  nerves.
• As the narrators nervousness/stress increases
  throughout the plot, your line graph will reflect
  this change (note this is not an objective
  graph, but you will be asked to supply evidence
  from the text).

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Language Features

• On a copy of your text, find, highlight, and
  label at least one of each of the following
• Repetition
• Hyperbole
• Archaic language
• Emotive language
• Parallelism
• Sentence structure simple and complex
• Metaphor
• Simile

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Language Features, cont.

• Select THREE language features and explain how
  they
• Work together to build tension
• Create a picture in the readers mind
• Gives the reader more information about the
  narrator

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Speaking

• The narrator has been put on trial in a court of
  law. You are the top legal mind in the country.
• The Defence claims that the narrator is Not
  Guilty by Reason of Insanity (NGRI).
• The Prosecution claims that the narrator was of
  sound mind when he committed the act.
• What evidence will you use to support your case?