This lesson contains 38 slides, with interactive quizzes and text slides.
Lesson duration is: 30 min
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Tell Tale Heart
by Edgar Allan Poe
Made by: Steije, Lars en Brit
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Assigment
With the use of the next slides we will be analysing Tell Tale Heart.
Have your short story, answers to the study questions and pen and paper ready
Ask questions whenever you feel like it
we are going to start with the study questions
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Question 1
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who is the narrator and what does he say about his senses?
Slide 4 - Open question
Question 2
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How does the old man bothers the narrator?
A
He has a golden eye and the narrator wants to steal it.
B
The old man has an eye patch which irritates the narrator.
C
The man has one eye made of glass and which reflects the light.
D
the man has one eye which looks like a mirror when looking in it.
Slide 6 - Quiz
Question 3
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What does the narrator do each night and why?
Slide 8 - Mind map
Question 4
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why doesn't the narrator just kill the man during the day when the eye is open?
Slide 10 - Open question
Question 5
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the narrator sneaks in to the old man's room. For how many night does he do this?
A
8
B
9
C
7
D
6
Slide 12 - Quiz
Question 6
Slide 13 - Slide
In what way has the narrator murderd the old man?
Slide 14 - Mind map
Question 7
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Why does the narrator wait till the eight night to commit the murder? why is the eight night so significant?
Slide 16 - Open question
Question 8
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How is irony used in the steps the narrator took before he killed the old man
Slide 18 - Open question
Question 9
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Why does the narrator no longer fear being caught?
A
He is so confident about his crime that he thinks he cant be caught.
B
He has burried the corpse far away from the city they live in.
C
His plan worked out so good because he has been so thougtful about his crime.
Slide 20 - Quiz
Question 10
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What effect does the visit from the police have on the narrator?
Slide 22 - Mind map
Question 11
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Why does the narrator confess?
Slide 24 - Open question
Question 12
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What is the theme in this short story?
Slide 26 - Mind map
Question 13
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What is irony?
Slide 28 - Mind map
Question 14
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Why is the following quote ironic? "His room was a black as pitch with thick darkness (for the shutters were close fastened through fear of robbers), and so I knew that he could not see the opening of the door, and I kept pushing it steadily, steadily." (at the end of the first page)
Slide 30 - Open question
Cito Questions
Slide 31 - Slide
what is the narrators strongest sense? And what does it allow him to do?
Slide 32 - Open question
The two controlling symbols in the story are the eye and the heart. What might these two symbols represent?
Slide 33 - Open question
What argument does the narrator present as to why he is not insane?
Slide 34 - Open question
How does Poe create tension and suspense in the story?