The Use of Diction and Word Choice to Portray the Insanity of the Narrator in Tell-Tale Heart, a Short Story by Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
Psychology
Tell Tale Heart
Writer
In the short story “Tell-Tale Heart”, Edgar Allen Poe uses specific diction to subtly portray the narrator’s insanity, but also to characterize the narrator as a guilt- ridden person somewhat capable of differentiating right vs. wrong. At the exposition of the story, the narrator describes the intent behind the murder by stating, “Object there was…