Similes In The Tall-Tale Heart

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As said by J.K. Rowling, “We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: We have the power to imagine better.” Imagination like this is what is applied when author develop their stories. In the story “The Tell Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, the author uses similes and descriptive dialogue to develop the mood, setting, and characters in the story. In “The Tall Tale Heart”, the author uses similes to develop the mood, and characters of the passage. In the short story, Poe used a simile to develop the mood by saying, “Now I could hear a quick, low, soft sound, like the sound of a clock heard through a wall.” By doing this it is setting the mood as slightly mysterious and eerie, as we wonder

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