How does Poe create suspense in "Tell-tale Heart". by Timothy Potts https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt Post your answers with the prompts. en-us 2019-02-19 16:55:08 UTC 2025-10-22 19:22:10 UTC hello@padlet.com Imagery tim_potts https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1800138286 2021-10-07 15:08:06 UTC https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1800138286 Foreshadowing tim_potts https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1800138823 2021-10-07 15:08:15 UTC https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1800138823 Setting tim_potts https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1800139356 2021-10-07 15:08:25 UTC https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1800139356 Word Choice tim_potts https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1800140128 2021-10-07 15:08:39 UTC https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1800140128 Unreliable Narrator tim_potts https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1800140795 2021-10-07 15:08:52 UTC https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1800140795 Word choice Aubree aallre04 https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1800163962 The narrator repeats himself a lot as to reassure the readers and himself. Paragraph 11 ''Yes,he was stone,stone dead.'']]> 2021-10-07 15:15:30 UTC https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1800163962 Jacob.B Foreshadowing jbeard06 https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1800166072 In the opening paragraph, we learn that the narrator is nervous, and that he is insane. Both of these things foreshadow his murder of the old man. ]]> 2021-10-07 15:16:07 UTC https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1800166072 Kaitlynn Thomas kthoma06 https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1800172204 "And then when my head was well in the room i undid the lantern cautiously- oh, so cautiously- cautiously (for the hinges creaked), I undid it just so much that a single thin ray fell upon the vulture eye. And this i did for seven long nights, every night just at midnight, but i found." ]]> 2021-10-07 15:17:36 UTC https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1800172204 Setting -Joel Arellano jarell04 https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1800175124 in paragraph 15 the police men and the narrator are in the victim's room]]> 2021-10-07 15:18:21 UTC https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1800175124 Word choice Virgil bmoral06 https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1800176064 He's very frantic by the end of paragraph 17 "They herd- they suspected - they KNEW- they were making a mockery of my horror! this I thought, and this I think." ]]> 2021-10-07 15:18:37 UTC https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1800176064 Eneli mendez emende03 https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1800178935 In paragraph 4 it explains how he is in the by saying the old mans room was as black as pitch with the thick darkness]]> 2021-10-07 15:19:15 UTC https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1800178935 Setting amason061 https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1800179117 "I led them, at length, to his chamber."-Paragraph 15]]> 2021-10-07 15:19:18 UTC https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1800179117 Jaslynn jalver02 https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1800180820 as the reader becomes more mad he begins to be more obseesed with his neighbers heart beat. thesound of the heart is what actually drives the speaker mad and causes him to turn himself in to the police.]]> 2021-10-07 15:19:46 UTC https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1800180820 Jonathan Pinto Foreshadowing jpinto02 https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1800182025 Close to the end the character was scared and nervous that the police came and the character was scared because he killed someone and he was nervous that the police was there]]> 2021-10-07 15:20:03 UTC https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1800182025 Thomas. F tfelbe01 https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1800182934 The starting paragraph, we know that he is nervous, and that he is insane there. Therefor both of those are foreshadowing the murder of the old guy.



]]> 2021-10-07 15:20:18 UTC https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1800182934 Lindsey B Fore shadowing lbrune01 https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1800188085 At the end of paragraph 3, we learned that the narrator was going into the old mans room every night, just at twelve, he also he looked upon him while slept. That shows that he was trying to give us a warning and that he was going to kill the old man, because he kept looking at him until one night.]]> 2021-10-07 15:21:44 UTC https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1800188085 Ethan evidal01 https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1800190245 On page 61, paragraph 1 said,'' Nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them.'']]> 2021-10-07 15:22:19 UTC https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1800190245 Setting amason061 https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1800193993 "To think that there I was opening his door little by little, and he not even to dream of my secret deeds or thoughts."-Paragraph 4]]> 2021-10-07 15:23:21 UTC https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1800193993 Unreliable Narrator valvar02 https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1800198475 Throughout the story the narrator constantly states that he is not insane, although he's constantly showing qualities of a mad man. For example on paragraph 10 it states, "And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses?"]]> 2021-10-07 15:24:37 UTC https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1800198475 Kimberly Mendez https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1800257532 In paragraph 17 he is being very panicky "It grew louder and louder! and still the men chatted pleasantly, and smiled. was it possible they heard? they heard! they suspected!"]]> 2021-10-07 15:42:03 UTC https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1800257532 Unreliable Narrator lgarci311 https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1802727962 In paragraph 6 it says, "He was still sitting up in the bed, listening; just as I have done night after night heartening to the death watches in the wall." that shows how crazy of a person the man is because it literally says it.]]> 2021-10-08 14:51:14 UTC https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1802727962 foreshadowing https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1802736087 in the opening paragragh the narrater was insane and was nervios so he was yelling.]]> 2021-10-08 14:54:30 UTC https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1802736087 foreshadowing https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1802747918 We learn that the narrator is insane and he was freaking out about the mans eye and so we can foreshadow that the man is going to kill the man.]]> 2021-10-08 14:59:24 UTC https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1802747918 Setting amason061 https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1802753599 The narrator creeps into the man's room at midnight each night, when no one is awake, and the only light seen is the one the narrator shines on the man's eye. With this setting, Poe emphasizes the narrator's dark nature and builds terror and suspense surrounding his actions.]]> 2021-10-08 15:02:02 UTC https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1802753599 constance foreshadowing cmay04 https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1802757468 he hinted that he was going to murder the man. when he gave the man soup it the letters formed the words "you will die". He also kept talking about the reason why he killed the man]]> 2021-10-08 15:03:52 UTC https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1802757468 D'Angelo H. Foreshadowing https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1848388352 In the story of tell-tale heart the author shows that the main character (The man who killed the other man with big eye) wished that the old man was dead because of his eye. He was foreshadowing what he would be doing in the future to kill the old man.]]> 2021-10-27 14:22:00 UTC https://padlet.com/tim_potts/r4k7ix310iqt/wish/1848388352