In the story “Tell-tale Heart,” Poe controls the pace of his story and increases tension by using repetition. Such as the sentence “It grew quicker and quicker and louder and louder every instant... It grew louder, I say, louder every moment!-,” in paragraph 11. The writer repeats the words quicker and louder to describe the heartbeat of the old man. This creates tension and excitement for the readers. In the same paragraph he repeats the phrase stone dead for exanple, “Yes, he was stone, stone dead… He was stone dead.” By repeating that he was stone dead it emphasizes the madness of the narrator. To add on, in paragraph 8, the narrator repeats the key word “stealthily,” to express the cautions he took while opening the door. To wrap up the