Edgar Allan Poe used many elements to create suspense in his works and it helped him develop the mood and theme in his poems and short stories. Poe was an author known mostly for his scary and suspenseful short stories and poems and eventually earned the name “The Father of the Detective Story”. Poe used imagery and sentence structure to build suspense throughout his works.
Sentence structure played a big part in developing suspense within Poe’s short stories. The sentences grew choppier as the story progressed to show the agitation and anxiousness of the narrator. In “The Tell-Tale Heart”, towards the end of the story, as the narrator becomes more agitated and disturbed, the sentences also grow choppier and shorter. “Why would they not be
Sentence structure played a big part in developing suspense within Poe’s short stories. The sentences grew choppier as the story progressed to show the agitation and anxiousness of the narrator. In “The Tell-Tale Heart”, towards the end of the story, as the narrator becomes more agitated and disturbed, the sentences also grow choppier and shorter. “Why would they not be