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The Tell-Tale Heart

by Edgar Allan Poe

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The Tell-Tale Heart

The narrator exhibits signs of severe mental instability, demonstrated by his irrational murder of an old man due to paranoia about the man's eye. Despite his insistence on his own sanity, his...

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The Tell-Tale Heart

In the final forty lines of "The Tell-Tale Heart," Edgar Allan Poe uses stylistic devices like repetition, short sentences, and alliteration to heighten tension and convey the narrator's increasing...

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