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    reason behind my understanding of the narrator adding onto the suspense is just the mystery behind him. When I say the mystery behind him‚ I mean no one knows what he is‚ he doesn’t even know what he is. For example‚ he has never seen himself‚ and he has never heard a human voice within his lifetime. That creates suspense due to his lack of common knowledge. In the end‚ the narrator of “The Outsider” creates a good amount of suspense‚ and also shows unreliability due to lack of

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    words carefully in order to achieve an explicit effect on the reader. Dickens does not tell the readers the main point directly instead he gave pieces of information and let them search for more clues therefore this creates suspense. Charles Dickens uses language to create suspense. It is clear that the author uses the theme of supernatural and it is important in this spooky story. Furthermore‚ the author shows Signalman is affected by the ghost and the deadly things that happen afterwards. For example

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    his writing so the reader can imagine the father and son playing chess as the mother cleans and then take notice of the mood. Another example of mood is when Herbert is brought back from the dead and is knocking on the door. Both versions create suspense‚ but in two different ways.

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    to entertaining the reader by using different ways to implement fear. In "The Fall of The House of Usher"‚ Poe creates suspense‚ uses symbolism‚ and uses gothic elements to keep the reader interested and to make the story interesting. Edgar Allen Poe uses suspense in the story to keep it interesting and to leave the audience biting their nails in anticipation. Poe creates suspense by pacing when the narrator reads "one of [Rodrick’s] favorite romances"(Poe307) and

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    In the novel Rebecca‚ du Maurier uses techniques‚ such as dialogue and setting description‚ to create suspense and tension. But in the movie‚ Hitchcock uses different techniques‚ like music and scenery‚ to create the right kind of suspense and tension for his audience. The plots are the same‚ but the techniques are not. In the novel‚ the author uses a lot of dialogue to create the suspense needed to make the storyline interesting. For example‚ on page 259 in chapter 19‚ the narrator is speaking

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    Critique: Passage from The Stranger by Albert Camus: At the same instant the sweat in my eyebrows dripped down over my eyelids all at once and covered them with a warm‚ thick film. My eyes were blinded behind the curtain of tears and salt. All I could feel were the cymbals of sunlight crashing on my forehead and‚ indistinctly‚ the dazzling spear flying up from the knife in front of me. The scorching blade slashed at my eyelashes and stabbed at my stinging eyes. That’s when everything began to reel

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    Pit and the Pendulum” Poe‚ the author of this story has made it to where there is a few elements that add suspense to the story. Isolation would be a key element in the story that I would say adds suspense to the story it is one of the key one’s because as he explains what’s happening in this dark room that there is no light up until the part where he is under the pendulum‚ anyway he uses suspense with the isolation by always changing what was going on along with a little repetition with him getting

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    The key elements in a good horror film include good actors‚ marking visuals‚ and a large budget. On the other hand‚ intense‚ descriptive imagery and longer lasting suspense is crucial in successful horror novels. A novel cannot be directly and exactly translated into film given limitations motion pictures have. Most of the time‚ other elements such as visual effects have to be added in order to scare the audience through

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    along with the help of NASA. The theme of the book is Survival. Andy Weir wrote his best selling book The Martian and included many different elements‚ but the two that the readers enjoy the most are suspense and humor. Nearing the end of a lot of chapters‚ something big will happen leaving the suspense hanging‚ but Weir often covers it with humor or something sarcastic‚ and even sometimes lets the thought of

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    state of suspense. Although it remains a mystery‚ throughout The Cask of Amontillado‚ the reason why the narrator harbors such hatred toward Fortunato‚ this missing information adds to the suspense and allows the reader forge a bond with the words Montresor speaks‚ as he cunningly guides Fortunato to his death. Aside from creating a closer attention to the descriptive language‚ Poe also uses imagery to create the sense of impending doom. Two main contributors to the impending doom and suspense‚ which

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