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The Tell-Tale Heart
Edgar Allan Poe
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What Makes a Great Horror Story?
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About the Setting of “The Tell-Tale
Heart”
• PLACE:– The Narrator’s house
• TIME:– Several nights
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Cultural Background
• “The Evil Eye”– Many cultures believe in “The Evil Eye”—the
ability of one person to harm other people simply by looking at them in a particular way.
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MOOD
What’s the FEELING
of a piece of writing?
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MOOD cont. • Writers hope to stir readers’ emotions with their
words. They know emotions can produce the mood or feeling of a piece of writing.
• The setting (time and place) can affect the mood as can descriptive words, dialogue, imagery, sounds, rhythms and symbolism.
• Symbolism: Using symbols (something that stands for something else) to make a statement– The black crow circling overhead could be
a symbol of danger to come.
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MOOD EXAMPLE
• What descriptive details help create the mood?
“When I had waited a long time, very patiently, without hearing him lie down, I resolved to open a little—a very, very little crevice in the lantern. So I opened it—you cannot imagine how stealthily, stealthily—until, at length, a single dim ray, like the thread of a spider, shot from out the crevice and fell full upon the vulture eye.”
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TONE• Tone is the attitude the writer takes toward a
subject/Or the narrator’s attitude toward a subject. The language and details the writer chooses to describe the characters, setting, and events help to create the tone.
• The punctuation, capitalization, and formatting can all play a role into the author’s TONE.
• The tone might be serious, sarcastic, playful, or objective, depending on the author’s purpose. – If the author’s purpose is TO INFORM, then the tone
might be serious.– If the author’s purpose is TO ENTERTAIN, then the
tone might be lighter and more playful.
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TONESarcastic Tone
Playful Tone
Serious ToneObjective Tone
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TONE EXAMPLE• What attitude does Poe express about the
speaker in the first tone excerpt?
“True!—nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am! but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses—not destroyed—not dulled them. 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.”