The document is a short story titled "A Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe. In less than 3 sentences: The story is narrated by a man who kills an old man he is caring for because he hates the old man's eye. He dismembers the body and hides it under the floorboards, but is ultimately undone by the sound of the old man's heart beating, which he imagines he can still hear. He confesses to the murder driven mad by his guilt and the sound of the beating heart.

1. A TELL-TALE HEART
By Edgar Allan Poe
Prepared by : MARY, FARHANA, RAIHAN, HIDAYAH

2. EDGAR ALLAN POE
A brief biography

3. MASTER OF HORROR AND THE
FATHER OF THE DETECTIVE STORY
He was working for the editor of
Born – 19 January 1809 in Boston.
a magazine
parents were both actor and
actress. Father abandon the family His Aunt Maria even gave permission to
when he was still 2 years old. Edgar to marry her daughter, his cousin,
Virginia. She was just 13 at the time.
Adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Allan of Poe was 26.
Richmond, Virginia.
Edgar’s drinking problem caused
Entered college at the him to lose his job
University of Virginia.
The same dreaded disease (TB) that
killed his mother and brother also took
went to Boston, joined
the life of his wife.
millitary academy to
get income.
deep depression, thoughts of suicide,
Live with his aunt, , Maria his drinking worsened, and many
Clemm, his natural father’s suspected drug abuse. It was during
sister. this time, however, that much of his
best work was written!

4. He was found unconscious on
the steps of an abandoned
hotel in the middle of the
slums of Boston on October 3,
1849. Apparently he had
drank and drugged himself
into a deadly stupor. He never
regained consciousness. He
died at the age of 40 on
October 7, 1849.

5. FIGURATIVE
LANGUAGE

6. HYPERBOLE
• The narrator made an overstatement or exaggerated language
when he said that “ for an hour I did not move a muscle which he
is not actually possible to not move a muscle for one hour.
Evidence: page 2, paragraph 1. “I kept quite still and said nothing.
For a whole hour I did not move a muscle, and the meantime I did not
hear him lie down .”

7. SIMILE
• When the narrator use the word “as” and
saying that “ his room was as black as pitch
with the thick darkness”
• Evidence: page 2, paragraph 1. “ his room was
as black as pitch with….”

8. SYMBOL
• The bed symbolize the murder weapon.
• Evidence: page 3, paragraph 1. “ in an instant I
dragged him to the floor, and pulled the heavy bed over
him. “

9. IRONY
• The narrator keeps saying that he is not crazy but when he
describes his actions and all the actions that make him appear
crazy.
• Evidence : page 1, paragraph 3. “ I was never kinder to the old
man than during the whole week before I killed him.”

10. PERSONIFICATION
• The narrator personifies death and says something about Death
has chosen the old man.
• Evidence: page 2, paragraph 3, “ because death, in approaching
him had stalked with his black …..”

11. MORAL
VALUES

12. DO NOT HATE PEOPLE FOR
THEIR FLAWS
• The narrator hate the old man just because of the old
man’s eyes and he did try hard to get rid of the eye and
finally he killed the old man.
• Evidence: page 1, paragraph 2. “ he never wronged me.
He had never given me insult….. I think it was his eyes!.. i
made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus
rid myself of the eye forever.

13. WHAT GOES AROUND COMES
AROUND
• At the end of the story, the narrator finally drown by
his own guilt and he suffered the consequences of his
evil deeds.
• Evidence: page 3, last paragraph. “ Villains! Dissemble
no more! Admit the deed! – tear up the planks! Here,
here! – it is the beating of his hideous heart!

14. ALWAYS DO THINGS
CAREFULLY AND
THOROUGHLY
• The murderer had done the murder very carefully and
once he has done the deeds he went to examine the
corpse either there was any pulsation of his heart.
• Evidence: page 3, paragraph 1, “ I removed the bed and
examined the corpse. Yes, he was stone, stone dead.
…there was no pulsation.