Edgar Allan Poe's Techniques To Create Suspense

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Another technique that Poe uses to create suspense is the use of vivid words. Poe uses the word “vulture” to create more suspense when he says, “He had the eye of a vulture -a pale blue eye, with a film over it”(Poe 89).The word “vulture” helps the reader create a picture in his mind of the animal's eye in a human.Shows suspense by describing the way the eye looks for the narrator to hate on. The reader knows that the narrator is describing how the eye looks like because he has such an urge it take it off. Everytime he looks at it he gets annoyed and furious.Whenever he looks at the eye his blood becomes cold. Causing him to make the decision to take the life of the old man, to not look at it ever again.The author explains “First