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    Pictures‚ 1954. Alfred Hitchcock was known as the “Master of Suspense” for his skills at directing psychological thrillers. How many directors today could make a great thriller like Rear Window work with a camera‚ lights‚ and a window? The fear was not projected up on the movie screen but within the minds of his audiences viewing it. Rear Window has a classification of Genre as a Thriller. A thriller film revolves around anticipation and suspense. It aims to keep the audience on the edge of their seats

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    H.P Lovecraft is a well-known American writer that created the very genre that intrigues the human sub-concussion for a chilling thrill of suspense in cosmic horror‚ that’s intertwine within his two short stories‚ Dagon‚ and The Thing on the Doorstep‚ and his popular novella‚ The Call of Cthulhu. In these works‚ Lovecraft demonstrates dreadful foreshadowing‚ picturesque flashbacks‚ and the unnerving supernatural element. First a little background on the author; H.P. Lovecraft was born as Howard

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    Creating Suspense As he dropped the smoking gun out of his hand‚ he scanned the sea of people lying on the ground in front of him; an ocean of red flooded the crowd. “What have you done?!” a voice called. In movies‚ directors exploit sounds‚ acting‚ and lighting to illustrate suspense to their viewers‚ whereas in novels‚ authors must confide mostly on their use of detail and emotion in the text to convey suspense. In the novel‚ In the Middle of the Night‚ Robert Cormier creates suspense through his

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    Suspense and Irony in “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Gift of the Magi” The two short stories “A Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe and “The Gift of the Magi” by O’ Henry were two short stories that showed the writing skills of their authors. O’ Henry and Poe were two writers from different time periods‚ but use the same literary techniques in their works. Irony is defined as “a contradiction between expectation and reality” and suspense as “the growing interest and excitement felt while awaiting

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    FBI is baffled; the Oval Office is in a state of chaotic stress. The list of suspects seems far too obvious‚ and proves to be filled with dead-ends. However‚ Tulane law student Darby Shaw begins an investigation of her own--stirring up whirlpool of suspense and terror. Darby researches Rosenberg and Jensen’s court records‚ searching for a similarity in beliefs‚ something that would give someone a cause

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    Suspense: The Upheld of Poe vs. Connell The suspense in “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Most Dangerous Game” are very simple but also very different. Edgar Allan Poe’s short story‚ “The Cask of Amontillado”‚ is about a man‚ Montresor‚ who lures Fortunato‚ a man who has done Montresor wrong‚ into catacombs and soon kills him. Equally important‚ Richard Edward Connell Jr.’s short story‚ “The Most Dangerous Game”‚ involves big game hunters‚ Rainsford and General Zaroff‚ although it takes a turn

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    Suspense is one of the styles of writing in literature that is extensively used in Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap. Agatha interestingly marries suspense and the events in the play to produce a fascinating writing. Suspense serves a couple of purposes in any literary writing. Suspense is an aspect of writing where the writer puts the readers of his/her literature in a state of wanting to know what happens next‚ or what follows after one event. Readers experience a huge excitement and expectation

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    tension and suspense in ’The Monkey’s Paw’. From the very beginning we can see that the language used sets the scene and conveys the mood of the story; "the night was cold and wet". Pathetic fallacy immediately implies that the story will be based on evil and creates tension as it intrigues the reader. We can see that the language used helps the story to become fast paced which contributes to creating tension and suspense. We can also see that there are many words that create suspense by themselves;

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    How does Kazan create tension and suspense in On the Waterfront? On the Waterfront‚ directed by Elia Kazan in 1954‚ portrays Terry Malloy‚ the protagonist of the film‚ who goes on a journey to redeem himself for the murder of Joey Doyle. Terry‚ a former prize fighter‚ could have been a “contender” but now is a “bum” under the command of Johnny Friendly‚ a corrupt union boss. Throughout Terry’s journey‚ the director uses various methods to create tension and suspense in some of the scenes. Joey’s death

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    elderly man’s eye‚ with the description by Poe. This gives the reader the feeling of suspense‚ because it shows them the disturbing image of what the deranged Narrator was seeing. The author also builds suspense by the use of repetition. For example “I moved it slowly- very‚ very slowly‚ so that I might not disturb the old man’s sleep”(Poe 90). Poe repeats this statement to give the reader the feeling of suspense. Secondly Poe does this for us as the readers to clearly see through what is happening

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