Checklist: punctuation rythyns struct¬ paranoi lang¬ direct adress sympathy unduce¬ passive gothic settong¬ first person¬/ tricolons symbolism¬
DH macabre lang¬ intro ¬// conc - answer the ques in last parag. How still suspensinies us today. For his contemprerary readers, therere was the chilling added affect that they didnt have the scientific knowledge that we have today. It still scare us tho.
Coool words: foreboding consternation deprecated Edgar Allan Poe, an author from the 18th century and a master of gothic. Born in 1809, he led a turbulent life full of love, misery and death. His wife died to tuberculosis an Poe’s feelings for her and the depression that followed her death is evident with great lucidity in his works that still inspire, influence and terrify us to this day.
Edgar Allan Poe uses the first person tense to create suspense in his writing. The use of first person tense creates a personal link between the reader and the narrator. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator is a madman and a murderer. The narrator is …show more content…
When the narrator and fortunato are searching for amontillado in the vault: “We passed through a range of low arches, descended, passed on, and descending again, arrived at a deep crypt, in which …” The extract contains numerous commas which forces the reader to read the text slowly which builds suspense, Not only this, but the rhythmical structure of the sentence as created by the punctuation gives the sense that they are descending deeper and deeper into the vaults which gives the sense that they are descending deeper and deeper into the vaults which builds up a sense of claustrophobia and franticness (which builds up suspense), Not only this, but going deeper into the vaults means that you cannot run away - which gives the sense that the narrator is trapping Fortunato which, again, builds up claustrophobia and
DH macabre lang¬ intro ¬// conc - answer the ques in last parag. How still suspensinies us today. For his contemprerary readers, therere was the chilling added affect that they didnt have the scientific knowledge that we have today. It still scare us tho.
Coool words: foreboding consternation deprecated Edgar Allan Poe, an author from the 18th century and a master of gothic. Born in 1809, he led a turbulent life full of love, misery and death. His wife died to tuberculosis an Poe’s feelings for her and the depression that followed her death is evident with great lucidity in his works that still inspire, influence and terrify us to this day.
Edgar Allan Poe uses the first person tense to create suspense in his writing. The use of first person tense creates a personal link between the reader and the narrator. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator is a madman and a murderer. The narrator is …show more content…
When the narrator and fortunato are searching for amontillado in the vault: “We passed through a range of low arches, descended, passed on, and descending again, arrived at a deep crypt, in which …” The extract contains numerous commas which forces the reader to read the text slowly which builds suspense, Not only this, but the rhythmical structure of the sentence as created by the punctuation gives the sense that they are descending deeper and deeper into the vaults which gives the sense that they are descending deeper and deeper into the vaults which builds up a sense of claustrophobia and franticness (which builds up suspense), Not only this, but going deeper into the vaults means that you cannot run away - which gives the sense that the narrator is trapping Fortunato which, again, builds up claustrophobia and