Tension and Suspense in Walter de la Mare's poem The Listeners and Charles Dickens' The Signalman

Therefore, the foreshadowing in the story creates suspense for both the characters and the readers.

In both the excerpts "Jams" and "Swimming with Nightmares" by Peter Benchley, the author creates suspense in many ways. The author utilizes descriptive words, character's choices, and dangerous situations for creating suspense.

Suspense is a detail that many horror writer use to catch the attention of many readers and keep them holding on till the end. Just as W.F. Harvey does when creating suspense in his story August Heat. Mr. Harvey used three methods to create his suspense for his story, foreshadowing, withholding information, and reversal. With these three methods he is able to make the reader feel like, “ We may even hold our breath without realizing it as we read on eagerly to find out how the story ends”(Source 1).

I don’t like this” (1 & 2) Soon however it was as the mother and father had switched moods. The mother was acting very nice and wanted the stranger to come in. Before long the father wanted the man out and became very aggressive. The author does this to show how the mother and father started to act very differently when the stranger showed up. It makes us ask the question, how did the stranger bring these personalities to the mother and father so quickly. She is trying to build suspense upon the story. The author puts mixed moods in the reader's when the characters all start acting different. It makes the reader wonder why the characters are acting like this making the reader want to know what's going to happen next. With suspense building, the reader comes to the edge of there seat and the author does this so the reader can feel like there in that moment.

The first way Edgar Allan Poe keeps the reader in suspense by the conception of time. Poe makes time move two different way: slow and fast in certain parts of the story. A sluggish part in the story is demonstrated in this quotation: “I undid the lantern cautiously – oh so cautiously.” A demonstration of the time being accelerated follows: “It grew quicker and quicker, louder and louder every instant.” These examples cause the reader to read carefully. When the pace picks up the reader reads faster as if they are hearing the man talk. This is how Poe distinguished time.

In the sources the authors talk about suspense in stories they write. The suspense in the story could be how the author doesn’t give full detail or description on one or more characters. In the source “How do horror writers create suspense” by Percy D’Aco it shows that many horror stories often revolve around mayhem and the stuff in nightmares, and that great horror story often reflects a person’s biggest fear. Often authors like to keep the readers in suspense to scare them or make them want to keep reading and see how the story ends.

Graham Greene’s “The Destructor’s”, and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Rocking Horse Winner” (Both stories reprinted in Thomas R. Arp and Greg Johnson, Perrine’s Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense, 9th ed. [Boston: Wadsworth] 111-124, 285-298) are two short stories set in post-war England. Despite the similarities of both stories set in post-war eras of Great Britain, the mood and physical settings are vastly different. In fact, the stories each give differing amounts of details and clues about the setting. For instance, “The Destructors” setting is easily discernable, but in contrast, “The Rocking Horse Winner” gives only vague clues regarding the time and setting. Regardless of the differences in the amount of details given, the

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People reads books and they get their captured by the suspense the authors use to write their stories. Suspense is a key point for most readers it keeps them reading the book to see what happens next. Both Edgar Allan Poe and Richard Connell are very good authors that use a lot of suspense throughout their short stories. Poe’s “Cask of Amontillado” and Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” are two stories full of suspense. It’s unpredictable, surprising that we can’t figure out what happens next. .Through conflict, setting, and diction Poe and Connell are able to build suspense.

There are many devices that lead to suspense, one being the device of foreshadowing. It appears many times through the story, “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell. It is used to create an atmosphere that keeps the reader entertained. One example of this is, “The world is made up of two classes - the hunters and the huntees. Luckily, you and I are the hunters.” (Connell 8). This quote is an example of foreshadowing because it gives you clues to what is going to happen. It gives you a clue to the fact he is not really the hunter, but in fact, the hunted.

“Suspense arises naturally from good writing - it's not a spice to be added separately,” (Leigh Michaels). Suspense is an important aspect of writing, used to keep readers wondering and guessing what could happen next and how the story may end. Writers universally use this trait of suspense in their work to keep people interested in the writing, though there are many techniques they use to do this. In the example of “The Most Dangerous Game” author Richard Connell generates suspense using various methods of foreshadowing as well as skillfully crafting the plot in a suspenseful manner.

its singular form is appearing in the first stanza line 3 but here the prevalent impression is one of immensity, landscape without horizon, being lost.

The tone then changes in the next stanza. An unknown voice (typical of the ‘romance’) speaks to Soledad and says:

Charles Dickens is one of the most renowned British writers with well-known and widespread work. Dickens was born in England in 1812 and died in 1870. During this time, Victorian England experienced an Industrial Revolution, which impacted his life tremendously. New factories and industrial machinery changed many lives of the lower class citizens. The family grew up impoverished and struggled to maintain a good lifestyle. The family’s financial situation was strained as John Dickens, Charles’s father, spent money that the family didn’t have. These societal factors were influential in Charles Dickens’s life, and the same themes present themselves in his works. When an author creates a work, frequently themes of their life events are incorporated into the theme of the book, consciously or unconsciously. Victorian Age industrial-influenced strife was a common theme in Dickens’s life and presented itself throughout Dickens’s books.

The Ways in Which the Writers Create an Atmosphere of Tension, Mystery and Suspense in the Stories The Monkeys Paw and The Red Room