The Tell-Tale Heart

1. Point of view
The main character of the story is the narrator, talking to the first person. Since he's telling his own story, it gives a better understanding of his thoughts.

2. Style
2.1. Imagery
Based on sounds: the beating of the heart, the watch, the scream.
2.2 Metaphor
"the vulture eye"
"stone dead"
2.3 Simile
"It was a low, dull, quick sound -- much such a sound as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton".
2.4. Personification
"Death in approaching him had stalked with his black shadow before him and enveloped the victim".
2.5 Irony
Precaution VS denunciation
Kindness VS hatred, cruelty
Madness VS sanity

3. Prefixes
Disemble, Impossible, Foresight, Derision, Midnight, Undisturbed, Concealment, Precautions, Introducted, Extent

4. Suffixes
Causeless, Uncontrolable

5. Thesis statement about "theme"
1- A human being has a pervese wicked side - another self - that can goad him into doing evil things with no apparent motive.
2- Fear of discovery can bring about discovery.
3- The evil within (internal) is worst than the evil or ugliness without (external).