The Tell-Tale Heart 1

 Pour un dico bilingue : wordreference

Pour un doc unilingue : Merriem-Webster (US) / Collins (GB)

Pour un dictionnaire des synonymes : thesaurus.com

 

Conseils pour commencer :

-  essayez une citation (pas forcément de l'auteur / de l'oeuvre étudié)

- vous pouvez présenter un aspect de l'oeuvre, de l'auteur qui vous serviront  pour la question  de l'essai.

- vous pouvez tenter une définition des termes du sujet.

En tous cas, il FAUT produire votre question et votre plan. 

My outline will faull into X parts...

To conclude / To put it in a nutshell / To sum it all up /



The Tell-Tale Heart


After the quiz, here are a few elements we need to stress :

- the story starts with TRUE ! But can we trust the narrator ?

- There's no description whatsoever of either the narrator, or his victim. The narrator could be a man or a woman. We don't know much about his relation to the old man.

- The story focuses on the crime itself and its preparation. The narrator tells it, insisting that he's not mad.

- The action takes place in a room, like in tFotHoU.

- The narrator says he has over acuteness of the senses, like in
tFotHoU.






















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