The narrator, being the main character, wants to prove to us that he is not insane, and explains, with the story, his motives and tactics to kill the old man.
Style:
Imagery
Darkness
Sound - heat beating, beating drums
Metaphor
"[...] I undid it just so much that a single thin ray fell upon the vulture eye."
Stone dead
Simile
"[...] there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton."
Blak as pitch
Heart beating like a drum
Ray of light like the thread of a spider
Personification
"[...] for it was not the old man who vexed me but his Evil Eye."
Death described as a black shadow
Irony
It is ironic that the narrator thought the old man was kind, but he killed him because he was evil.
It is ironic that he conceals the body really well, then he gives himself away.
It is ironic that he says that he is not mad, but he really is insane.
Kindness vs. Cruelty
Precautious vs. Honest
Insanity vs. Sanity
Theme
A human being has a perverse, wicked side that can goad (force) him or her into doing things with no apparent motive.
Fear of discovery.
The evil within is worse than the evil or ugliness without.
Prefixes:- Dissimulation
- Impossible
- Foresight
- Detect
- Midnight
- Undisturbed
- Conceal
- Precautious
- Introtroduced
- Excited
Suffixes:
- Causeless
- Uncontrolable
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