My class is doing a court case on Tell-tale Heart. I need 15 questions for people in the room. Please read the tell-tale heart t
hen think of questions that could help me win my case against the narrator. I need 7 questions for the narrator
5 questions for the cops
and 3 questions for the neighbor
Why did the neighbours immediately call the cops? Did they already know he was guilty? Were the cops making him go insane at the end? Did the cops suspect him before he admitted it? What is wrong with the narrator mentally? Is he even human?
Figurative Language - Metaphor - when he talks about the wheelbarrow being glazed with rain, he may be talking about old things being reinvigorated and being new again.
Poe is able to create suspense throughout the whole story by talking about the tunnels and how damp and dark they are and the presence of death. The way he writes this story shows dark imagery. You can imagine Montresor taking Fortunato into the tunnels and how dark it is