Why did the narrator kill the old man?

I talked more quickly—more vehemently; but the noise steadily increased. This quote means that

I kept quite still and said nothing. For a whole hour I did not move a muscle, and in the meantime I did not hear him lie down. He was still sitting up in the bed, listening-- just as I have done night after night hearkening to the death watches in the wall. You could prove in court that

Yes he has been trying to comfort himself with these suppositions ; but he had found all in vain. ALL IN VAIN, because Death in approaching him had stalked with his black shadow before him and enveloped the victim. This quote implies that the narrator

I had my head in, and was about to open the lantern, when my thumb slipped upon the tin fastening , and the old man sprang up in the bed, crying out, "Who's there?" I kept quite still and said nothing. This passage creates an overall tone of

Presently, I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was the groan of mortal terror. It was not a groan of pain or of grief -- oh, no! It was the low stifled sound that arises from the bottom of the soul when overcharged with awe. I knew the sound well. How does Poe create a tone of danger?

ALL IN VAIN, because Death in approaching him had stalked with his black shadow before him and enveloped the victim. Which literary device is NOT used in this passage?

–So I opened it–you cannot imagine how stealthily, stealthily–until at length a single dim ray like the thread of the spider shot out from the crevice and fell upon the vulture eye. Which literary device is NOT used?

I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him. This statement from the narrator

I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How then am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily, how calmly, I can tell you the whole story. Which literary device is found in the first paragraph of the story which immediately sets a tone of suspense?

What character traits does the murderer pride himself on?

Reread the first paragraph of “The Tell-Tale Heart.” TRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How then am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily, how calmly, I can tell you the whole story. Based on the narrator’s tone, what can you predict about the story?

“As the bell sounded the hour, there came a knocking at the street door.” What might the reader predict from this statement?

Why do the officers stay long after they search the house and find no evidence of a crime?

How do the officers learn that the narrator has murdered the old man?

What is the climax of the story?

Why does the old man sit up in bed and say, "It is nothing but the wind in the chimney --it is only a mouse crossing the floor," or "It is merely a cricket which has made a single chirp." ?

What makes the eighth night different from the previous seven nights?

What do we learn about the narrator when he asks the police officers to sit and rest in the same room where he’s hidden the body?

Where does the narrator hide the body?