What is: A comparison between two unlike things using like or as?

What is:   vivid, descriptive language that creates mental images?

What is: A direct comparison between two unlike things?

What is:  An intentional exaggeration for effect?

What is:   Giving human qualities to inanimate objects?

Identify the figurative language: "...the thin ray fell upon the vulture eye."

Identify the figurative language: "Death, in approaching him had stalked with his black shadow..."

Identify the figurative language: "His room was as black as pitch with the thick darkness."

Identify the figurative language: "Hearken! and observe how healthily, how calmly, I can tell you the whole story."

Identify the figurative language: "A single dim ray, like the thread of the spider, shot from out the crevice."

The beating heart (that the narrator hears), which causes the narrator to confess, is a symbol of what?

Read the text: “And every morning, when the day broke, I went boldly into the chamber, and spoke courageously to him, calling him by name in a hearty tone, and inquiring how he has passed the night. So you see he would have been a very profound old man, indeed, to suspect that every night, just at twelve, I looked in upon him while he slept.”

What is the narrator's tone?

What is the climax of the story?

Which use of imagery is used to build suspense in the story?