The Tell Tale Heart - Figurative Language

"I heard all things in heaven and in the earth."

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• personification

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Alliteration

• "His room was as black as pitch with the thick darkness"

• "Yes, he was stone, stone dead."

• "Hearken! And observe how healthily - how calmly I can tell you the whole story."

• "For it was not the old man who annoyed me, but his evil eye"

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

"Death in approaching him had stalked with his black shadow before hin and enveloped the victim."

• alliteration

• personification

• simile

• idion

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Metaphor

• "His room was as black as pitch with the thick darkness."

• "It increased my fury as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage."

• "I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth."

• "One of his eyes resembled that of a a vulture - a pale blue eye, with a film over it."

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

"It increased my fury as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage."

• metaphor

• personification

• simile

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

idiom

• "Yes, he was stone, stone dead."

• "A watch's minute hand moves more quickly than did mine."

• "For it was not the old man who annoyed me, but his EVIL eye."

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

"So I opened it - you cannot imagine how stealthily, stealthily - until at length a single dim ray like the thread of the spider shot out from the creivce and feel upon the vulture eye."

• metaphor

• repetition

• alliteration

• simile

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

simile

• "His room was as black as pitch with the thick darkness."

• "It increased my fury as the beating of the drum stimulates the soldier into courage."

• "So I opened it - you can imagine how stealthily, stealthily - until at length a single dim ray like the thread of the spider shot out from the crevice and fell upon the vulture eye."

• "One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture - a pale blue eye, with a film over it."

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

"A watch's minute hand moves more quickly than did mine."

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• personifcation

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"For it was not the old man who annoyed me but his EVIL eye."

• idiom

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3