The Tell-tell

Heart
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 Contents of Discussion
Here’s what we will discuss in this session:

1. The types of Questions

2. The format of long question
3. How to write answer of the long question?
4. Questions from “The Tale-Tale Heart” for long question answer.
5. Justify the title “The Tale-Tale Heart”
6. What made the narrator confess his crime? What is the reality of the ‘ dull, low ,quick’
sound?
7. Do you think the narrator is mad? Give reason for your answer.

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Types of
Questions
Short Question Answer Long Question Answer
Five questions ccarrying 3 One question carrying 10 mark
marks each

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Format of long
Question
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Format of Long
question

Maintain at least 1-2-1

paragraphs

1.Intro
1.Body
2.Body

1.concluson
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Mention the text
Writer / author
Theme
Address the question
Asked
Never write more than
3 sentences p ag e.
e Hear
Maximum 3 to 5 lines le - Ta l
The Ta 109-115

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What to do In ● You can explain here what answer
body parts ? is demanded

● Bigin your answer hitting at the

head of the question

● Elaborate your arguement

● Cite example from the text to bring

credibility in your answer
● Make an inference to justify your
claim
● Repeat the same process for other
body as well

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Conclusion
Exam
t
conten

definition lenght
It is to say what is said Better to make 3 to 5 lines
paragraph

sentences Why
Try to conclude using It exhibits your sincerity
maximum 3 sentences

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 Question 1 page
Features of 115
the Question Would you call the
narrator mad?

Question no 2 page
115
Justify the title “The tale-
Sample Sho tale Heart”
rt
Questions

Queston no 3
What made the narrator
confess his crime?

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Question no 1
Introduction
Arthor- Edgar Allan
poe
Text- The Tell-Tale
Heart
Theme- crime and
Would you call Confession
the narrator Address the question
mad? Give Asked
reasons for your
answer.

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 Body Body
Begin your answer hitting Better to ennumerate
at the head of the question reasons with first, secondly
etc.

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 Examples Cited from Text
Acute sense of hearing His excessive patience

Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4

Analyze the behaviour Abnormal reason for

and Action of the murder & master plan
narrator for murder

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Examples Cited from Text
His cruelty

Step 5 Step 6

His sudden Confession

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 His Claim
From the beginning till the end:

Points to remember: ● TRUE!—nervous—very, very dreadfully

● The more he claims the more he seems
● Mad = not normal
● Not normal= abnormal
● Abnormal = mad
● mad?
Acute sense of hearing
nervous I had been and am; but why will you
say that I am mad?
● Now this is the point. You fancy me mad. Mad
men know nothing.
● would a mad man have been so wise as this?
● If still you think me mad, you will think so no
longer when I describe the wise precautions I
took for the concealment of the body.
● I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth.
I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I

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 His motive for
Murder

No reason ● Passion there was none.

Neither for wealth nor for insult
Only a vultured eye
Could have been easily avoided
● I loved the old man.
● He had never wronged me.
● He had never given me insult.
● For his gold I had no desire.
● I think it was his eye! yes, it was
this! One of his eyes resembled that
of a vulture—a pale blue eye,

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 His master
Plan:Eight
nights of
spying; one
night of ● And every night, about midnight, I turned the latch of his
door and opened it—oh, so gently!
murder ● And then, when I had made an opening sufficient for my
head, I put in a dark lantern, all closed, closed, so that no
light shone out, and then I thrust in my head.
Irrational idea to visit at old man’s room: ● Oh, you would have laughed to see how cunningly I
thrust it in! I moved it slowly—very, very slowly, so that
● I might not disturb the old man’s sleep. It took me an
Odd to normal man hour to place my whole head within the opening so far
that I could see him
● Timing to insert his head ● And this I did for seven long nights—every night just at
midnight
● For a whole hour I did not move a muscle
● Muscle without move

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 His Cruelty
and Patience
Ater Murder
● If still you think me mad, you will think so no longer
when I describe the wise precautions I took for the
Exposes his excessive cruelty: concealment of the body.
● The night waned, and I worked hastily, but in silence.
● First of all I dismembered the corpse.
Points to remember: ● I cut off the head and the arms and the legs.
● I then took up three planks from the flooring of the
chamber, and deposited all between the scantlings.
● Not a characteristics of normal man ● I then replaced the boards so cleverly, so cunningly, that
no human eye—not even his—could have detected any
thing wrong.
● Welcoming police officers ● There was nothing to wash out—no stain of any kind—
no blood-spot whatever.

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 His Concincing
manners
Towards The
Officers
● It was four o’clock—still dark as midnight. As
the bell sounded the hour,
● There entered three men, who introduced
themselves as officers of the police
● I smiled,—for what had I to fear?
How can a normal man be such relaxed after ● I bade the gentlemen welcome
● I took my visitors all over the house.
murdering someone? ● I bade them search—search well.
● I led them to his chamber
● I brought chairs into the room, and desired them
here to rest from their fatigues,

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 Sudden
Confession
● Conceals the evidences
● Convince the police
● Sudden confession
● Officers sat, and I answered cheerily,
● I felt myself getting pale and wished them gone.
● My head ached, and I fancied a ringing in my ears:
● The ringing became more distinct:—it continued and
became more distinct
● I found that the noise was not within my ears.
● I talked with a heightened voice
● I arose and argued about trifles, in a high key and with
violent gesticulations
● I could bear those hypocritical smiles no longer! I felt
that I must scream or die!
● they knew!—they were making a mockery of my horror!
—
● Villains! I admit the deed!—
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Conclusion
Hence, by observing his attitude ,behaviour
and character,the cause for murder, the
planning of murder, the execution of plan we
can say that he is not a normal man.

 The brutality he has exhibited to dismental

the corpse and the relaxation he enjoyed after
murder is certainly a case of abnormal one.

 And finallyt The sudden confession of his

crime infront of the officer confirms him to
be a mad man.

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