Tell-Tale Heart : Literary Interpretation

Edgar Allan Poe uses the first person narrator to truly render the emotions of the main character.

In the short story the Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, there are many literary interprations to be made by the litterary elements in the story.

1-REPETITION:
There where many repetitions in this short story:

Paragraph 2 , when the man speaks about the eye. "He had the eye of a vulture-a pale blue eye, with a film over it"

Paragraph 8, when explaining how steady he is. "So I opened it-you cannot imagine how stealthily, stealthily-until,[...]"

Paragraph17, as the noise grew louder. "[...] and now-again!-hark! louder! louder! louder! louder!"

2-METAPHOR AND SIMILE:
a) Metaphors are used in the story to engage the reader in the story.

Paragraph 8. "[...] shot from out the crevice and fell full upon the vulture eye. "

Paragraph 11. "Yes, he was a stone, stone dead"

b)Similes in the story are used to engage the readers in the story.

Paragraph 9. "-now, I say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton."

Paragraph 14. "When I had made an end of these labirs, it was four o'clock-still dark as midnight"