The Tell-Tale Heart Repetition

In the story “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, Poe gives us many examples of anxiety, repetition, and vivid words, these three types of techniques give us an immense amount of suspense examples. In “The-Tale Heart”, our character has gain an ability that advanced his hearing, making it superior to others. Our character feels as if everyone has the same power that he has, so this leads to many problems. Our character's father (Old man) has one eye that has the looks of a vulture that gives our character the chills. Our character feels disgusted when the eye lays upon him, making him infuriated. Our character waits many long nights trying to find the eye when the old man sleeps, so he can kill the old man. Upon the eighth night our character laughs to himself, waking the old man and startling him. Our character snuck his lantern by the door and made a sliver of light go through the door. Our character sees the eye and rages to the point where he smiled and bursted into the room, throwing the old man to the floor and suffocating him with the bed sheets. Our character can hear the heart beats slow down, and soon stop. The old man was dead, our character took his body disassembled it in the bathroom where he dug up the floor and put

One example, would be when our main character said “It was open-wide,wide open”(Poe 91). This shows suspense in many ways because when he sees that the old man's eye is open, we can tell how excited the character as he said this. Our character went crazy over seeing the old man's vulture eye. Another example, our main character says “It grew louder, I say, louder every moment!”(Poe 92). This is a sign of suspense because you can tell by his tone when he speaks, he sounds very upset, making us wonder whats wrong, making us thrive for the answer. Also when our main character when our character said this, he didn't say it out loud, instead he said it in his