Think about a time when you had to leave something behind. Write a minimum four-stanza poem (five lines per stanza, for a total of twenty lines) that expresses the "leaving" of something personal. Be sure to use each of the following poetic devices:
one simile
one example of alliteration
one metaphor
one hyperbole
one symbol
one example of personification

The correct answer would be B. Guilt because in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The

Tell-Tale Heart,” the beating of the heart that narrator hears is symbolic for

the guilt the narrator feels for having murdered the old man.  Evidence of his guilt is presented early in

the short story by how the narrator tells us that he “had to do it” as if he

had no other choice, which seems to be a sort of defense mechanism to make

himself feel better about killing the old man. 

Finally, it is within the presence of the police that the beating heart

only he hears is what makes him confess to the crime because it was getting too

great for him to bear any longer.

Hope I helped.