Active and Passive Voice (Unit 1: Suspense)

In "The Tell-Tale Heart," our impression of the narrator is that he is unreliable.

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"The Tell-Tale Heart" was written by Edgar Allan Poe.

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The story is being told by the narrator from the first person point of view.

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The narrator's senses have been sharpened by the disease.

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"For an entire hour I did not move, and I could tell the old man was still sitting up in bed—straining to hear" (62).

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"I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him" (61).

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"I took up three planks from the flooring of the chamber, and deposited all between the scantlings" (63).

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My fury was increased by the old man's beating heart (63).

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The vulture eye was lit by a single thin ray of light (61).

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The old man is not hated.

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