Authors are able to use different aspects of their writing to bring everything together to form a theme. In "The Tell-Tale Heart”, Edgar Allan Poe uses three literary elements to demonstrate the narrator's inner conscience and fear that drives him insane. He uses intricate plot, perplexing characters, and illustrative language in the story. The theme of guilt is incorporated throughout the entire story by using different literary elements of plot, character, symbolism, and language to prove that the…
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