Essay On Suspense In The Tell Tale Heart

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The authors of the two texts “The Tell Tale Heart” and I Know What You Did Last Summer effectively created suspense through the use of dramatic elements. The two texts used description of the character’s fears and anxiety in order to create suspense. Dialogue between characters build suspense in “The Tell Tale Heart” and I Know What You Did Last Summer Imagery is used to create suspense in the two texts.Therefore the two stories “The Tell Tale Heart” and I Know What You Did Last Summer use Imagery, Dialogue, and description of the characters fears because it creates suspense throughout the story.

The authors in the story “The Tell Tale Heart” and I Know What You Did Last Summer use a description of the character’s fears and anxiety in …show more content…

According to “The Tell Tale Heart” it says “I had talked more quickly- more vehemently; but the noise steadily increased. I aroused and argued about trifles, in a high key and with violent gesticulations, but the noise steadily increased.” This quote shows imagery because it uses elaborate word choice, giving the reader a better understanding of the overall plot. This bold word choice helps to build suspense because it makes the narrator seem mad, and that helps to grab the reader's attention. According to I Know What You Did Last Summer it states “A full year later, he stood, staring again at the story, and the same cold feeling touched his heart. The clipping was yellowed from exposure. Someone had handled it often, and read it many times. It creased down the middle and had the smell of old dollar bills.”This demonstrates suspense through imagery because it uses strong words to portray the true fear of the character. When you can feel the fear, it makes you want to turn the page to find out what Ray’s reaction would be. The author of “The Tell Tale Heart” mentions “It was the low, stifled sound that arises from the bottom of the soul when overcharged with awe. I knew the sound well. Many a night, just at midnight, when all the world slept, it was welled up from my own bosom, deepening, with its dreadful echo, the terrors …show more content…

Repetition is the phrases or actions in “The Tell Tale Heart” and I Know What You Did Last Summer builds suspense.

In “The Tell Tale Heart” it states “True!- Nervous- Very, Very dreadfully nervous I had been and am! But why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses.”
In this quote, the author repeats many of the same words to show how the narrator feels. This builds suspense for me because the words that are being used many times help me to see that the character is scared about something, but we don't truly know what he did just yet.
According to I Know What You Did Last Summer “Oh lord, I don’t want to go back and see-see what we did.”This truly shows that Julie is scared about what will happen when they return to the man. Her fear creates suspense because it shows the reader that something terrible might happen to the man. “I undid the lantern cautiously-oh so cautiously-cautiously-I undid it just so

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