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Sound In The Tell-Tale Heart By Edgar Allan Poe

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Thump, thump, thump. Do you hear the sound of the old man’s beating heart? That sounds is from a horribly story. “The Tell-Tale Heart,” a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, is about a unnamed narrator claiming that he is nervous but not mad, and he killed the old man because he hates the old man’s eye. Eventually, he confess his crime. Poe uses considerable references to sound in order to develop the insanity of his character and to push the plot of the story forward. Poe used many sensory sound details to effectively shape, plot, character, and Spence. Poe shows the important of sound in the very first paragraph. When the narrator said he could “hear all things in the skies and in the earth.” this is a kind of hyperbole and from the word we
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