Assess students' ability to identify and analyze key symbols and central themes in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" (e.g., the old man's eye, the beating heart, darkness, the narrator's obsession), evaluate how diction, imagery, tone, and unreliable narration convey guilt, madness, and moral ambiguity, and require support for interpretations with close reading and textual evidence through short-answer passages, a thematic paragraph, and an extended-response analysis.