1 / 7

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe. Master of Creepiness. Irony and Figurative Language in “The Tell-Tale Heart”. The Tell Tale Heart.

danae
Download Presentation

Edgar Allan Poe

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Edgar Allan Poe Master of Creepiness

  2. Irony and Figurative Language in “The Tell-Tale Heart” The Tell Tale Heart

  3. I was never kinder to the old than during the whole week before I killed him. ---And this I did for seven long nights – every night just at midnight – but I found the eye always closed; and so it was impossible to do the work; for it was not the old man who vexed me, but his evil eye. (538) • On the eighth night, it was open – wide, wide-open and I grew furious as I gazed upon it. (540) • DRAMATIC What type of irony is this???

  4. It is situational Irony that the murderer confesses to his crime. Why? Write 3 details from the story that support this idea.

  5. There was nothing to wash out – no stain of any kind – no blood spot whatsoever. • I led them, at length, to his chamber. I showed him his treasures, secure, undisturbed. • The officers were satisfied. My manner had convinced them. I was singularly at ease. They sat, and while I answered cheerily, they chatted of familiar things. Supporting your claim

  6. If you still think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body. The night waned, and I worked hastily but in silence. First of all I dismembered the corpse. I cut off the head and the arms and legs. • I then took up three planks from the flooring of the chamber and deposited all between the scantlings. I then replaced the boards so cleverly, so cunningly, that no human eye – not even his – could have detected anything wrong. (541) • On a separate sheet of paper, EXPLAIN what sort of irony this is using examples from the text. This must be in paragraph form. What sort of irony is this?

  7. On page 541, the reader sees an example of dramatic irony because the narrator justifies his sanity by matter-of-factly stating how he cuts ups the victim’s body. The narrator says, “If you still think me mad, you will think so no longer when I describe the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body…First I dismembered the corpse.” Immediately the reader knows that the narrator is crazy, however the character in the story does not think he is mad. This is a clear example of dramatic irony because the reader knows what the character does not. Answering the question

More Related