Tell Tale Heart Suspense
Imagine having to deal with a gross looking evil eye,wanting to banished it for eternity,but it is a lot more complex than that because to get what you want, you would have to kill the person with the eye.This the issue that the main character faces in the Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe.
In this story,the main character wants to kill the man with the treacherous eye.How ever after he kills the man he cant stop hearing the old mans beating heart.Suspense is the sense of tension and fear,felt by the reader. Poe builds suspense by describing the character's fear.,using vivid words,repetition ,and describing a suspenseful setting .
In the story,The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe,Poe describes the anxiety and fear of his characters to …show more content…
By saying that he was not mad repeatedly,it built up more and more suspense when Poe included that into the text.Another example of repetition is when the narrator said,he shrieked once.Once only.”Poe created suspense by including that into the text because he gave the reader that creepy feeling you get like when you watch scary movies, that sometimes gives you the chills,That is what Poe was doing there,to create more suspense. To wrap up this paragraph,Repition brought more and more suspense to the story.Read it if you dare!
Furthermore,suspense can also be built through the setting.In The Tell Tale Heart Poe sets the story stating,”Placed my own seat upon the very spot beneath which reposed the corpse of the victim.”(Poe 93),This setting description builds suspense because it takes place in the room where the narrator stored the dead old man's corpse which are common descriptions of horror stories.To conclude,The setting creates suspence as well by,for an example,”In the monkeys paw, The Whites family lived far away from town so it builds a lonley far away creepy suspenful feeling.
Poe did an outstanding job in the Tell Tale Heart of building suspense and making the reader hungry to find out if the police find out he killed the old man.Poe does an excellent job at building suspense by describing the characters
In this story,the main character wants to kill the man with the treacherous eye.How ever after he kills the man he cant stop hearing the old mans beating heart.Suspense is the sense of tension and fear,felt by the reader. Poe builds suspense by describing the character's fear.,using vivid words,repetition ,and describing a suspenseful setting .
In the story,The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe,Poe describes the anxiety and fear of his characters to …show more content…
By saying that he was not mad repeatedly,it built up more and more suspense when Poe included that into the text.Another example of repetition is when the narrator said,he shrieked once.Once only.”Poe created suspense by including that into the text because he gave the reader that creepy feeling you get like when you watch scary movies, that sometimes gives you the chills,That is what Poe was doing there,to create more suspense. To wrap up this paragraph,Repition brought more and more suspense to the story.Read it if you dare!
Furthermore,suspense can also be built through the setting.In The Tell Tale Heart Poe sets the story stating,”Placed my own seat upon the very spot beneath which reposed the corpse of the victim.”(Poe 93),This setting description builds suspense because it takes place in the room where the narrator stored the dead old man's corpse which are common descriptions of horror stories.To conclude,The setting creates suspence as well by,for an example,”In the monkeys paw, The Whites family lived far away from town so it builds a lonley far away creepy suspenful feeling.
Poe did an outstanding job in the Tell Tale Heart of building suspense and making the reader hungry to find out if the police find out he killed the old man.Poe does an excellent job at building suspense by describing the characters