The Use Of Suspense In The Tell-Tale Heart By Edgar Allan Poe

Everyone has or will read an entire story just to find out who’s the murderer is or where the missing mother has gone to. One great example of this is the story “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” Edgar Allan Poe creates suspense by using dramatic irony, Slowing down the intensity and by unanswered question.
One of the ways an author creates suspense is by using dramatic irony. In the story “The Tell-Tale Heart” the narrator thinks the source of his distress is from the old man's’ blue eyes but the readers know that is now not true . The narrator says “ I made up my mind to take the life of the Old Man and thus rid myself of the eyes forever ” . This creates suspense because the readers don’t know what the narrator