Hello 8th Grade Students!
This week we completed a lesson for Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart." Poe once wrote that every word in a story should help create a "single overwhelming impression." How well has he done that in "The Tell-Tale Heart"? In a paragraph, describe the story's impact on you. Mention three striking details that help create this impact.
in the story of the tell-tale heart,the story impacted me by teaching me many things a bout how literary stories are written and how every single detail increases the suspense. three examples are when Poe describes the room as a dark and moody place, when he described how the narrator snuck up on the old man, and how he described the horrifying heartbeat that the narrator heard.
ReplyDeleteIn the story of the tell-tale heart the story thought me a lot of things that there is a lspense in these kind of stories and scariness in these kind of stories.Three examples is the heartbeat that it scares the narrator but the narrator hears it, That the room there is no light and its scary, also how he killed the old man.
ReplyDeleteIn the story of Tell-Tale Heart it thought me how literary stories are written and the suspense. Some examples of the story is the heartbeat that it scares the narrator but the narrator hears it because it is his own heartbeat and when Poe describes the room as a dark scary and mysterious place.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed reading the Tell-Tale Heart. It was full of mystery, action, and suspense. Some examples and details of the story are: that it took him hours to peek through the door, the dark room, and the heartbeat that the narrator thinks is the old mans heart but it's his own heart.
ReplyDeleteThe Tell-Tale Heart, consisted of both action, yet freaky mystery. The narrator uses 3 words which helps create a single, overwhelming impression. Examples are the following:I creeped through his room, the late hours of the night; another is: I went to his room, every night for 8 nights, staring at him; and lastly: I pulled the bed over him, and checked for a pulse; but he lay there like a stone.
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ReplyDeleteReading the Tell-Tale Heart, I thought of it as both a thrilling story and a study and preivew to what we will later be reading in the book. This story specifically engages the reader through Poe's style and skill and excessive use of intellectual word choice. His style of writing consists on this "single overwhelming impression" providing us with just the right amount of suspense to realize and detect what he was exactly aiming for. Three examples of this happening;
ReplyDelete"It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived- it haunted me day and night."
"And every night, about midnight, I turned the latch of his door and opened it- oh so gently!"
"Yes, he was stone, stone dead."
The Tell-Tale Heart was a very well written story which was very mysterious. Edgar Allan Poe is a very descriptive writer. His writing left a single overwhelming impression. With that he let us know what he was trying to say. Three examples that helped create a impact were "and every night, about midnight, I turned the latch of his door and opened it- oh so gently!","yes, he was stone, stone dead." And how he described the horrifying heartbeat that the narrator heard.
ReplyDeleteIn the story "The Tell-Tale Heart" the story has impacted me by the new words that i have learned from this story and, he has done very well in that because he really got my attention and i learned a lot of new words.
ReplyDeleteAll I can say is that the "Tell-Tale Heart" was very unpredictable. Poe did an amazing job with his word choice and descriptions. He imprinted the words insanity, crazy, intense, suspenseful, horror, and many indescribable feelings in our brains. He created his most impressive character by adding a lot of creepiness to the mad hatter and making him really scary. Poe pretty much shot an arrow straight at our Achilles Heel of literature by creating this suspenseful, thrilling, masterpiece of a story.
ReplyDeleteWhile reading the Tell Tale Heart i thought it was a very interesting short story because of the crazy man and the old mans blue eye.
ReplyDeleteThe tell tale heart was actually pretty unpredictable i couldn't exactly now what was going to happen next because randomly he's suffocating someone then hes chopping him to sushi! Well 3 things he used was Suspense, Horror, and basically craziness especially when he takes up a whole page talking about how he isn't crazy. At the end i thought it was stupid that he confessed but i also that it was ironic how he was hearing heartbeats.
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Im the story "The Tell Tale Heart", Edgar Allen Poe describes in the beginning that the narrator is not crazy or mad, which automatically makes us think that he is what he says hes not. I also agree on what Vago said about the story being unpredictable and the word choice thatbhe uses helps us visualize the events that are going on.
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ReplyDeletethe story tell tale heart was very good. this story was exciting to read and it was interesting. the three things he used is crazyness, suspense horror.at the end he gave himmself up beacuse he head his heart beat and i think that was intersting.
ReplyDeleteEdgar Allan Poe, has laways been my favorite writer. The words he uses lures you in. He is a very talented writer. The Tell-Tale Heart, i think, is his best work! Its suspensful, witty, and very unpredictable. Poe explains this crazy story so well. Some details of the story which i enjoyed reading were: the beating of the (insane guys actually) "old-man's" heart, how he turned himself in, and how it took him about an hour to get his head through the door.
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