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The Tell Tale Heart Foreshadowing Examples

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Many of Edgar Allen Poe’s themes inspired a majority of our favorite TV shows and movies. One of his themes that is used for inspiration was foreshadowing. Foreshadowing is when an author hints to the reader what is coming later in the reading. Many examples of foreshadowing can be found in Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart.” One example of foreshadowing is when the Man declares that his “senses of hearing [was] acute.” However, it is his sense of acute hearing that leads him to confess to the murder. Also, before he kills the elderly man he states that the old man’s heartbeat “grew louder, louder!” He also believed that the whole neighborhood could hear the heartbeat. This example foreshadows that the man will later become obsessed
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