What are some examples of figurative language in the Tell Tale Heart?
Poe uses personification to help the reader relate to the story, by giving non-living things human qualities. The quote, ‘Death, in approaching him had stalked with his black shadow before him, and enveloped the victim’ is an example of personification in this story.
What are some examples of imagery in the Tell Tale Heart?
As in many scary stories, most of the visual images in this tale involve the play of light and dark, exemplified by the flashlight shining on the old man’s face, his fear in the darkness when he awakens, and the shadows in the room as the narrator talks to the police.
What does the watch symbolize in Tell-Tale Heart?
The watch symbolizes not only the time and life the old man has left to live, but it also represents the countdown and leading up of the narrator’s murderous actions and crime. Overall the ticking of the watch is symbolic of time and the wait the narrator, as well as the old man, must endure before the inevitable end.
What are the symbols in Tell-Tale Heart?
The two main symbols in the story are the “tell-tale heart,” which is the heart of the dead and dismembered man that beats so loudly that the guilty murderer can hear it, and the old man’s “vulture eye.” The heart beating beneath the floor boards represents the narrator’s guilt.
What does the evil eye symbolize in the Tell Tale Heart?
The Eye. Eyes represent perception, awareness, and truth. The narrator names the old man’s eye as the reason he has to kill him, which suggests he wants to be seen and known. Poe’s references to the eye as “evil” also suggest a commonly held belief in the supernatural ability to cast a curse with a malevolent glare.
Why is the narrator scared of the eye in Tell-Tale Heart?
The narrator describes the old man’s eye as that of a vulture’s. This suggests that the narrator would fear the old man tremendously because his ‘vulture’ eye is watching him, waiting for him to keel-over so he can feast.
What did the narrator say was covering the vulture eye?
The reference to a vulture’s eye is found early in “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe. The narrator tells us that he is nervous, mad (insane), upset–and yet quite calm.
Why does the old man’s eye trouble the narrator?
The old man has a fog in his eye because he can not see out of that eye. It troubles the narrator because he thinks that the eye is evil. The narrator would go in the old man’s bedroom and look if the eye is open or not.
Why does the narrator want to kill the old man?
Why does the narrator want to kill the old man? Because the old man’s vulture eye tormented him and he had to rid himself of it forever. he thought the police really knew that he killed the old man and were mocking him and merely trying his patience.