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Use Of Irony In Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart

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Edgar Allan Poe uses many different literary devices in "The Tell-Tale Heart. He begins the story with the use of irony. In trying to prove to the reader that he is not mad, he admits to having an acute sense of hearing. He says that "I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell." It is ironic that to trying to prove his reasonable behavior, he says that he hears voices. Irony is used at the end of the story when he and the officers sit in chairs on the floor where the old man's body is hidden. Poe also uses imagery when he describes the old man's eye. He says "One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture -- a pale blue eye with a film over it." He uses more imagery the night of the murder. “So I opened it
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