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Plot Diagram Exposition Narrative Hook snigl Rising Action Climax Falling Action Resolution the narrator Identify a quote for each of the following Literary Elements Simile Metaphor Personification Hyperbole Symbolism Imagery Irony - Foreshadowing The Tell-Tale Heart Activity
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1. Exposition: The narrator introduces himself and insists on his sanity.2. Narrative Hook: "I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever."3. Rising Action: The narrator sneaks into the old man's room for seven nights.4. Climax: The narrator kills the old man on the eighth night.5. Falling Action: The narrator dismembers the body and hides it under the floorboards.6. Resolution: The narrator confesses to the murder due to overwhelming guilt.7. Simile: "His eye was like that of a vulture."8. Metaphor: "It was the beating of the old man's heart."9. Personification: "Death, in approaching him had stalked with his black shadow before him."10. Hyperbole: "I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth."11. Symbolism: The old man's eye symbolizes the narrator's madness.12. Imagery: "A single dim ray, like the thread of the spider, shot from out the crevice."13. Irony: The narrator insists he is sane while describing his madness.14. Foreshadowing: "I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him."