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

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