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Edgar Allan Poe's Use Of Suspense

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Authors create suspense in stories by using time,distance,setting,and different thoughts. They also make the danger feel real and they hide what characters are feeling. This story is about a unknown named man who killed an elderly that lives with him because he thinks that the man 's eye is evil. Towards the end of the story it seems like he 's gonna get away with murder because he put the body under the floorboards and sat on it while the cops were there talking to him. Poe builds a lot of suspense towards the end of the book because he leaves the characters feelings out and he leaves us wondering if the narrator will actually kill the man, and then over whether he will be caught. The author also builds suspense because of the timing the
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