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a simple dim ray, like the thread of the spider

black as pitch

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In "The Tell-Tale Heart," the narrator describes the old man's eye as a "vulture eye," representing how it unnerves and haunts him. This metaphor suggests that the eye is menacing and intrusive, symbolizing the narrator's irrational terror and guilt.

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"One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture..."

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"One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture - a pale blue eye, with a film over it"

He compares Vulture with the Eye, Vulture-eye...

I guess that is a metaphor of some sort?

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