Tell Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe Literary Devices

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Edgar Allan Poe used the literary device of setting to create a dark, threatening tone to his short story, “Tell Tale Heart.”
Edgar Allan Poe used the literary devices of him when he stayed in the dark while he hid from the old man, when he used the lantern to cover it to only shine light on the vulture eye, and also his heart beat when the police arrived to the home.

The man would go for 7 nights and spot the vulture eye of the old man. He went every night to check on the old man and on the old man’s eye to see if it was open. It didn’t anger him about the eye; it angered him when it was open. The things Poe used, like the squeaking of the door and the floor boards every time the man opened the door and stood on the floor boards. Also, how

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