Tell+Tale+Heart

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Fun Poe facts:

 * ===Poe is considered the inventor of the modern detective story, emulated masterfully by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Edgar Award is given to mystery writers each year.===
 * ===He married his cousin Virginia Clemm when he was 26 and she was 13.===
 * ===The Baltimore Ravens football team was named for his poem "The Raven."===
 * ===Although "The Raven" was a huge hit, Poe only earned $14 for it.===
 * ===His death remains a mystery. He was found in a Baltimore gutter, dressed in someone else's clothes, in a delirious state. Theories posited to explain his death include:===
 * ===Rabies===
 * ===Rare brain disease===
 * ===Syphilis===
 * ===Alcohol poisoning===
 * ===Diabetes===
 * ===A scheme involving being kidnapped, drugged, and used as a repeat voter in ballot-stuffing fraud===
 * ===Each year since 1949, the 100th anniversary of the year of Poe's death, on Poe's birthday, a mysterious visitor known as the Poe Toaster leaves a half-empty bottle of Martel cognac and three roses on this grave. The roses are assumed to represent Poe, his wife Virginia, and her mother, Maria Clemm===

Derision: Contempt, ridicule
Consider the following:


 * 1) **How does Poe create suspense?**
 * 2) **Can you find examples of irony?**
 * 3) **Can you map out the plot: rising action, climax, denouement?**
 * 4) **Discuss the point of view of this story. What do we know about our narrator?**
 * 5) **How does Poe create a mood?**