The Tell Tale Heart: The Total Effect Of The Story
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What is the total effect of a story? The total effect of a story
is the specific response an author expects to get from his/her readers. In
"The Tell-Tale Heart," by Edgar Allen Poe, is complete and total horror.
The setting, plot, character and even point of view contribute to this
total effect ....
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.... of horror when he flipped the bed onto the old man,
and then chopped him into little tiny pieces and hid him the floorboards.
Then the police came to see about a scream that was reported earlier. The
man led them through the house, claiming that the old man was out of town
for a while. He finally sat down in the exact spot where the old man had
been buried under the floorboards. What eventually made the man confess to
what he had done when he imagined that he heard the old man's heart beating
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