The Tell-Tale Heart Literary Devices

“Hearken! and observe how healthily --how calmly I can tell you the whole story” is an example of...

• onomatopoeia

• allusion

• hyperbole

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

“Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold” is an example of...

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• metaphor

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

1. Which of the these is an example of parallel structure?

• “I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever.”

• “… just as I have done, night after night, hearkening to the death watches in the wall.”

• “…with what caution --with what foresight --with what dissimulation I went to work!”

• None of these

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.1A

The sentence, “I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him” is an example of

• onomatopoeia

• irony

• repetition

• symbolism

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

1. “I undid the lantern cautiously-oh, so cautiously –cautiously…” is an example of which literary device?

• simile

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• repetition

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

“…for the hinges creaked…” is an example of

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• hyperbole

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

“His room was as black as pitch with the thick darkness…” is an example of a

• parallel structure

• symbolism

• simile

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Knowing what happens to the old man in his dark room, because of someone already in his house, the phrase, “the shutters were close fastened, through fear of robbers…” would be considered

• an allusion

• alliteration

• none of these

• ironic

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

“For a whole hour I did not move a muscle,” is an example of

• hyperbole

• repetition

• foreshadowing

• an allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

“… because Death, in approaching him had stalked with his black shadow before him, and enveloped the victim” is an example of

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

• symbolism

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4