In "Tell Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, the beating heart the narrator heard symbolizes, at least in my opinion, the narrator's guilt. He killed a man, and he kept hearing his beating heart, even though it was impossible. He kept hearing it because he felt guilty because he murdered a person, and he had to come clean to the police officers in some way. If he hadn't, he would go completely mad, and his crime would go unpunished, probably.
I'm not sure the word for it, but I'd say it symbolizes the truth to a game the narrator was trying to play. When he was trying to lie and make sure that no one knew about the body under the floor, he almost succeeded in doing so, until he thought he heard the man's hear beating from under the floor. Hearing the sound of a beating heart in his ears made him go insane until he finally just confessed about the body under the floor. I hope my answer kind of helped you.
Chris McCandless, aka Alexander Supertramp, experiences various enlightening moments that unfold the main idea in the novel, "Into the Wild". Jon Krakauer clearly portrays this main idea of his novel: a young man attempts to find true happiness through solitude and nature, instead of finding it in society.
Rhetoric is language that is intended to have a convincing or inspiring
effect on people, but is often lack a earnestness
or expressive content. Classically something rhetoric has figures of speech or
other composition techniques. I think one of the techniques used in this
passage is when he said he hears sees and feels Harlem, when he means he comprehends.
I feel this has a solemn tone of writing
