Read Tell-Tale Heart Out Loud
- suspense: anxiety or apprehension resulting from an uncertain, undecided, or mysterious situation
- Edgar Allan Poe is the master of suspense.
- pacing: advancing or developing something at a particular rate or tempo
- It takes a while to discover exactly what happened to that cat the narrator killed.
- dangerous action: self explanatory
- The narrator’s violent moods creates trouble for everyone, including himself.
- foreshadowing: a literary device in which the author gives clues as to what will happen later
- We know the narrator has done something terrible. The story begins with him awaiting execution in a jail cell.
Four panel storyboard for example of each element on pumpkins