ENGLISH HELP 10 POINT

Match these Literary Devices with their definitions and examples from the story "The Tell-Tale Heart".

Question 1 options:

this situation is the opposite of what I might expect

“I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.”


the details add to the reader’s horror and terror, and help build suspense

“I turned the latch of his door and opened it-oh so gently!”


excitement and uncertainty about what will happen next

“I undid the lantern cautiously-oh, so cautiously-cautiously…I undid it just so much that a single thin ray fell upon the vulture eye.”


the narrator draws readers into the story and makes the tale more exciting and gripping

“I felt that I must scream or die! and now-again!-hark! Louder! Louder! Louder! Louder!”


a narrator that we can’t trust or believe

“True! Nervous-very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?”

1.
Unreliable Narrator

2.
Excessive Details/Overcompensation

3.
Suspense

4.
Situational Irony

5.
Mood