Read the excerpt from "The Tell-Tale Heart" below. Using complete sentences, describe how Edgar Allan Poe begins to establish a mood of terror that will continue throughout the story. In your response, use phrases and words from the excerpt to support your opinion.

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Read the excerpt from "The Tell-Tale Heart" below. Using complete sentences, describe how Edgar Allan Poe begins to establish a mood of terror that will continue throughout the story. In your response, use phrases and words from the excerpt to support your opinion.

I could scarcely contain my feelings of triumph. To think that there I was, opening the door, little by little, and he not even to dream of my secret deeds or thoughts. I fairly chuckled at the idea; and perhaps he heard me; for he moved on the bed suddenly, as if startled. Now you may think that I drew back—but no. His room was as black as pitch with the 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 on steadily, steadily.

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ca u help please

anonymous · Answer

When I was in the 8th grade my English teacher showed us this animation video for the tale tell heart. Pretty much explain it and summarized it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDLLHTdVSgU

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thnx

what was ur answer

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Well, we never really read it. We only saw the animation.

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Ed hates the disgusting eye of his father and so he made up his mind to take the life of the old man to rid himself of the eye forever.
Based upon the novel

anonymous · Answer

lol since u already saw it what would answer 4 this question

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He uses this to gradually create and increase terror in his audience because of the situation he's deciding to put himself in.

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In your response, use phrases and words from the excerpt to support your opinion.

anonymous · Answer

he also felt guilty for killing his old man and starting having hallucinations about how his heart was beating under the floor board and soon confesses to the police that he has killed his old man. they then arrest him and stick him in an asylum of sort and their he stay.

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can I copy and paste this?

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I think you should use your own words because teachers now a days take what you type or write and look it up with an app and they can easily find where you got it from and call it plagiarism.