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I think it was his eye!yes, it was this! One of his eyes resembled that of avulture—a pale blue eye, with a film over it.
metaphor the narrator compares the old man¨s eye to that of the vulture, using this metaphor to emphasize his revulsion towards it.
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Whenever it fellupon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees—verygradually—I made up my mind to take the life of the oldman, and thus rid myself of the eye for ever
Repetition the narrator repeats key phrases like the eye and rid myself to reinforce his obsession.
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I heard all things inthe heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell.
hyperbole - this exaggerates the narrator΅s heightened senses and paranoia
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The diseasehad sharpened my senses—not destroyed—not dulled them.
The repetition of the sound creates a rhythmic, unsettling quality
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I made up my mind to take the life of the oldman, and thus rid myself of the eye for ever.
Personification - the narrator personifies his desire to rid myself of the eye as if it is a separate entity
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