Another way that Poe uses to create suspense is the use of vivid words. Poe uses the word vulture to create suspense when he said “He had the eye of a vulture- a pale blue eye, with film over it” (Poe 89). The word “vulture” helps the reader picture a bird like animal with an anticipation of death towards others. This helps the reader picture a the old man with a predator like eye that infuriates the narrator. In addition Poe creates suspense for the reader when he says “So I opened it - you cannot imagine how stealthily, stealthily- until, at length, a single dim ray, like a thread of the spider, shot from out the crevice and fell full upon the vulture eye” (Poe 91). The reader can image the rays of the light and the movement of the stealth
