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    tension‚ suspense‚ fear‚ and despair? Analyze the use of descriptions and images in Hamlet. How does Shakespeare use descriptive language to enhance the visual possibilities of a stage production? How does he use imagery to create a mood of tension‚ suspense‚ fear‚ and despair?Analyze the use of descriptions and images in Hamlet. How does Shakespeare use descriptive language to enhance the visual possibilities of a stage production? How does he use imagery to create a mood of tension‚ suspense‚ fear

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    literature and cinema‚ it can be unpleasant in other ways. Some cause-and-effect relationships‚ such as the banging after the second wish in “The Monkey’s Paw”‚ and the heart beating faster because of a sound in “The Tell-Tale Heart‚” create a feeling of suspense for the audience. Let’s begin with causes-and-effects in “The Monkey’s Paw‚” by William Wymark Jacobs. In the story‚ the White family buy a monkey’s paw from their friend. This paw granted three wishes. Supposedly‚ one wish caused the White

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    In Gothic Literature it is common for the setting to be taken place in a castle. This castle could be haunted ruined‚ abandoned‚ etc. The authors used this setting to make the character or reader feel fear‚ terror‚ and suspense. With the setting taking place at a castle it gives a dark and uneasy mood that anything could take place at any given time “...Gothic gave Romantic writers and readers a way to describe accounts of terrifying experiences in ancient castles and ruined abbeys-experiences connected

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    techniques. The most important technique is the effect they have on the audience. From anxiety to suspense‚ each genre has special techniques they use when establishing a connection with the audience. Among the genres‚ there are horror films. These involve scare tactics which cause great suspense within the audience. Suspense is the state of mental uncertainty or excitement; however‚ horror films also induce suspense that increases anxiety. The scare tactics that create anxiety are used consistently in films

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    techniques to comprehend the story. Hawthorne effectively uses irony‚ conflict and imagery in “The Wives of the Dead” to create the mood of suspense surrounding the fate of the husbands. The story begins with two wives that are sisters learning that each of their husbands have been killed in the “line of duty” within two days of each other. The mood of suspense is created early on in the story with the use of conflict. The sisters having just learned of their husbands deaths create a sense of inner

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    Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window is a mystery and thriller that leaves audiences in a constant state of suspense. Rear Window opens by showing photographs of high risk environments hanging on a wall of an apartment. This leads one to believe that whoever owns the apartment lives a high risk and adventurous life. However‚ once the broken camera is shown‚ it is understood that the main character‚ L.B Jefferies‚ is a photographer before it is stated through dialogue in the film. Early into the film we

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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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    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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    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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