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    Suspense is when a writer puts actions into their book or movie to build a sense of danger‚ such as in “the Tell Tale Heart” instead of the killer running in and killing the man he waits in the dark for the man to wake. People like suspense because instead of receiving the scare it holds there keeping you scared. In “The Tell Tale Heart” by edgar allen poe and in “The Monkey’s Paw” by William Wymark Jacobs they use suspense to move the plot. The do this by the point of view‚ setting‚ Both books

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    The most important literary device to create suspense in Three Skeleton Key is danger. My first claim is that suspense literally means fear of danger. My evidence from the dictionary is as follows: “anxious‚ uncertainty‚ anxiety‚ condition of being undecided or undetermined”. That is the definition of suspense‚ and as you can tell‚ anxiety is worry‚ worry is fear of something bad happening‚ or fear of danger. Someone else might argue that fear is a feeling‚ and that represents mood‚ but you could

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    Have you seen a movie or read a book that kept you on the edge of your seat? Suspense is a state or feeling of uncertainty about what is going to happen and is often used to keep the reader entertained and interested. This feeling of suspense is often created through cause-and-effect relationships where something happens that builds tension. “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Monkey’s Paw” create a feeling of suspense through cause-and-effect relationships by describing the characters’ feeling that something

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    In the story “Tell Tale Heart” the author Edgar Allen Poe uses his madness and intention to create suspense. The author builds the story in a way that there’s excitement on every page that you read. He uses a different way of writing with his words‚ he writes his words like he’s crazy and with intention. In the story he has the urge to kill the old man because of the man’s eye that he thinks is eval. He explains how he kills the man very precisely‚ also he tells you how he was at the door of the

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    Suspense is featured when the reader is uncertain about what’s going to happen next. Suspense leaves the readers feeling curious as it is the most intense and exciting point of the short story. ‘Adventure of the Speckled Band’ created suspense when Dahl describes the room. ‘On the table stood a dark-lantern with the shutter half open‚ throwing a brilliant beam of light upon the iron safe‚ the door of which was ajar’. By doing this‚ Dahl hopes to create a picture in the reader’s mind of the room where

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    Authors create suspense by making the reader feel something wrong is going to happen in their novel. Some authors that do that are Edgar Allan Poe and Ray Bradbury in their stories‚ “The Tell-Tale Heart”‚ and “The Pedestrian.” Edgar Allan Poe uses suspense in his story‚ “The Tell-Tale Heart” when the old man the narrator is trying to kill wakes up and does not go back to sleep. “I had my head in‚ and was about to open the lantern‚ when my thumb slipped upon the tin fastening‚ and the old man sprang

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    This essay is about what tools Poe uses to create suspense. One method is first person narration which allows to see inside the narrator’s mind. Another method is story pace which is how the author drags out the events of the story. The final method is how Poe sets the scene which is basically where‚ and when. First person narration creates suspense by showing inside the narrator’s mind. It shows their thoughts and reasoning for their actions. In some of his work‚ Poe uses First person narration

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    The Tell-Tale Heart suspense essay In the story the tell-tale heart Poe uses the first person narrative to create the suspense and tension making the reader wanting to find out more about what is going on and he uses literary devices to build this tension keeping the reader in suspense. In the story Poe uses a lot of descriptive language when describing both things and events‚ Poe states “For a whole hour I did not move a muscle‚ and in the meantime I did not hear him lie down.” Poe also states

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    In the story "The Birds" by Daphne du Maurier and The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock‚ all types of birds begin to attack the people for an unknown reason. The short story and the movie each have a different way of presenting the main idea and creating suspense. Throughout the film and short story‚ we see how the citizen’s cope with the bird attacks and what happens to the birds. In my opinion‚ I thought that the movie was more suspenseful then the short story for multiple reasons. One important reason

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