ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Imagery. In ‘’The Tell-Tale Heart, ” Poe uses imagery, which appeals to our physical senses and helps us imagine what the narrator sees and experiences.

Detailed explanation-2: -The three main gothic elements that are evident in this story are the unique setting, the theme of death and decay, and the presence of madness.

Detailed explanation-3: -The narrator of Poe’s short story “The Tell-Tale Heart” provides for an example of an unreliable narrator. The narrator’s unreliability relies on his attempts to confuse the reader, to digress and thus bury his omission of relevant information.

Detailed explanation-4: -To create a sense of doubt in the reader, Poe never makes clear the “narrator’s particular crime, nor is it indicated that he himself knows his crime” (Ballengee 30).

Detailed explanation-5: -The events are described by a first-person narrator. The narrator is unreliable, as he is clearly mentally ill and further describes himself as having supernatural senses. The language is written in a formal style, lacks dialogue, and is written as a monologue or a confession made in retrospective.