Literary suspense may involve the question “Why?” over “What would happen next?”. This film has parts that could be considered literary suspense. For example, when Noah stabbed Lucius there was a question of “Why?”. “Why?” is asked because Noah committing this act was a sudden and surprising twist. No one would have figured that innocent Noah would be tainted enough to hurt Lucius. Overall, the literary suspense depicted shows the literary merit elements used.…
Interest and suspense are created in the story by having the death of the main character at the beginning of the story. By doing this the reader is anticipating the story to come of how her death came to be.…
1. Suspense is a key element in the plot of the story. It maintains interest and heightens the feeling of mystery. Suspense compels the reader to read on, to discover what happens next, and how things turn out. Discuss the elements of suspense in Poe’s famous story and show how it is achieved before and after the murder.…
Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven builds suspense in numerous ways. One way that it builds suspense is that it takes place at midnight in December after the loss of his love Lenore. Then we hear "a rapping on the door" without anyone there. Even when the Raven does appear we are left to wonder if the Raven represents something different and if it is really there. He goes on to have a conversation with a bird which builds the suspense even more because bids can't talk and it suggests that he may be going…
Edgar Allan Poe uses suspense in his story, “The Tell-Tale Heart” when the old man the narrator is trying to kill wakes up and does not go back to sleep. “I had my head in, and was about to open the lantern, when my thumb slipped upon the tin fastening, and the old man sprang up in the bed, crying out-“Who's there?” (Poe, 356). This tells you how he adds suspense because after this happened, they were just staying still for a while waiting for another sound to be made. Another use of suspense in the story is, “He was…
Many authors have a different approach to creating suspense in their writing. In this essay I will be using examples to show this using 2 different short stories from 2 different authors.…
(2) Suspense is used in short stories to make the reader feel for the characters and desire a certain outcome. Suspense is the anxiety of a certain outcome.…
In our mordern world, stories affect our life every day, but how do the authors of these wonders keep the reader exited and focused? This is when the type of writing called suspense comes along. Suspense is the type of writing skill authors use to give readers uncertainty about the conclusion of the story. In some stories, the reader may guess the conclusion before they even finish reading the introduction, but when authors add suspense in to their master pieces, the stories become far more interesting and keeps the reader wondering whether if the conclusion of the story would end like they thought it would, and therefore keeps the reader wanting to read more. The famous writer Edgar Allan Poe is an expert in writing suspense related stories…
What makes a story suspenseful? Is it imagery? Is it dialogue? The reason for suspense varies for different people. For some, dialogue makes a story suspenseful and others maybe diction or even a combination of two aspects but typically not the same aspects for every person. In a movie, it is usually the sounds and darkness and location. In a book though, there are no sounds so you need other aspects such as diction, dialogue, imagery, plot, etc.…
Robert Louis Stevensons Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a gothic novel in many of its aspects, but one of the most important reasons is that there is constant building of suspense. There are many ways that this is done: through his characters, through his vocabulary, the setting and even through the origins of the character of Hyde.…
Suspense is when the reader anxiously want to know more but the author waits to give them further information. In "The Most Dangerous Game", by Richard Connell, suspense is used in many situations. A big-game hunter named Rainsford, who is from New York, falls aboard and swims to the island. He gets trapped on the island of a sadistic fellow hunter General Zaroff, who bored with conventional prey, has come to see humans as the only quarry worthy of his skill, hunting man. Plays his hunting games with Rainsford. Connell creates suspense through grammar, cliffhangers and holding the resolution until the last sentence.…
In this short story, Edger Allan Poe does a great job of describing the setting, even though it's not that descriptive but he uses a language to makes the readers think that it's happening this way. To support my statement, the author uses diction to make the readers scared: “black as pitch with thick darkness”. This makes the mood of the story creepy and scary. Also, Poe creates a mood of tension and anxiety “TRUE! —NERVOUS—VERY, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?”. Its narrator is fascinating because he confused the readers right off the bat that makes readers more interested in the short story. Another reason is because its short and easy to understand; that makes the readers focus on the short story and it's easy to explain the story. If I compare the “Cask of Amontillado” to the “Tale-Tale Heart” both narrators had a plan to kill their victim, both of their victims did not have the knowledge that there going to die, in both stories they inspect their targets, in both short stories the narrators make sure their bodies are hidden very well and that none could have found it not even 100 years later and they really cautioned with their…
In "The Tell-Tale Heart," Edgar Allan Poe revolves the story around a raving individual and the object in which he obsesses over. This theme of insanity is progressed throughout the entire story by Poe's style of gothic writing. Gothic-style writing is defined by using these elements: abnormal psychological behavior, creating a gloomy or threatening atmosphere, connections between the setting and its characters' thought processes or behavior, and supernatural components. Poe's usage of these gothic elements builds up the central theme in the "The Tell-Tale Heart."…
The two short stories “A Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe and “The Gift of the Magi” by O’ Henry were two short stories that showed the writing skills of their authors. O’ Henry and Poe were two writers from different time periods, but use the same literary techniques in their works. Irony is defined as “a contradiction between expectation and reality” and suspense as “the growing interest and excitement felt while awaiting a climax or resolution.” O’ Henry and Poe used either suspense, irony, or both to make their stories more intense for the readers.…
A mystery is commonly used by the reader to build the suspense that will eventually improve the novel. The suspense keeps the reader anticipating the end of the book moreover allows the audience to connect to the novel. The book I chose for this example is And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. The story is about eight strangers being invited to an island. There they meet a butler and a house-keeper. Day by day a person is killed similar to the tale called Ten Little Indian that was hung in every room. In the end, the police found a note that includes all the plan and purpose of this mystery.…