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Examples Of Suspense In The Tell Tale Heart

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Suspense. Suspense is the overall mood in the short story by Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell Tale Heart. I think that this is because The Tell Tale Heart has a lot of moments that you feel anxiety for knowing what’s going to happen next. Suspense is the best way to describe this story for many reasons. First, the text says, “I made up my mind to take the life of the man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever,” (pg. 78 lines 12-13). This created that feeling of suspense because me as the reader, didn’t know if the narrator was going to be capable of doing such thing. Next the text says, “Information had been lodge at the police office, and the police officers had been deputed to search the premises,” (pg. 83 lines 117-118). At this point, this

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