How Does Dickens Create A Sense Of Tension In Bleak House

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The book Bleak House was written in 1853 by Charles Dickens and published by Bradbury & Evans. The location of the short passage in on the first page. My paraphrase of the content in the passage is that in the cities of England, fog covers the landscape as well as the people and it is unpleasant and unwavering. As for the form of the passage, it includes a repetition of the image of fog, as the word fog is used in almost every sentence. Fog is also attached to concrete objects, places, and types of people. I chose this passage is because Dickens creates a sense of tension that seems to have a deeper meaning than it first suggests. There were several words that stood out to me, such as aits, gunwale, parapets, and collier-brig. They were each