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Edgar Allan Poes The Raven and The Tell-Tale Heart

Story Classification and Literary Devices T-Chart

The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe: https://poestories.com/read/telltaleheart

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe: https://poestories.com/read/raven
To help with finding literary devices and definitions: https://literarydevices.net/

INSTRUCTIONS
INDIVIDUAL
Under Questions, answer each question with 1-2 complete sentences for both sections.
PAIRS
With your partner (previously assigned), under Literary Devices, provide at least 3 literary devices with text examples for both sections (use the websites
above to write your findings).
CLASSROOM
These answers will be shared in class discussions (we will be discussing this chart for both stories), so provide accurate in-text citation and reasoning.
Your chart will be graded on correct citation, text evidence, reasonable explanation of evidence, and completion of the chart.

Questions The Raven The Tell-Tale Heart

What is the main point

of this story?

What is the main theme

of this story?

What is the narrators

objective in the story?
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Literary Devices The Raven (Provide Line #) The Tell-Tale Heart (Provide Paragraph #)

What are possible

literary devices within
this story? Explain its
significance after
providing text evidence.