Tell Tale Heart Analysis Essay

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Analysis of settings in tell Tale Heart

Draft 2:Edgar Allen Poe used the literary device setting to create a dark threatening tone in his short story,”tell tale heart”.The elements of setting Edgar Allan Poe used are time of day,elapsed time,and mood and atmosphere.Edgar Allen Poe used the element of time of day to stalk the old man at midnight,(538:2) “opening of the door and I kept pushing it on steadily,steadily”.Following up to the next evidence that Edgar Allen Poe mentions how he goes inside the old man's room and opens the door slightly and goes into the old man's room for one hour at twelve o’Clock at night.”I opened the door slightly as the old man’s eye vexed me,he went in the old man's room but he always found the old man's eye closed”,(538:3).The last evidence that the author Edgar Allen Poe used in writing this story for the element time of day mentions. Is how he says night after night I check on the old man’s room.On (539:2) “it says I opened the old man's