Suspense: A Short Story

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Suspense
Why! Why do I have to be the ghoul that now haunts this neighborhood. Why was I the chosen by fate! The last ghoul is gone since he found me. Now I must find my own victim, and give them the curse. “This neighborhood isn’t very big” I say with hope “I’ll find someone soon enough.” I search and search, but nothing shows up until a while later. I spot him in the corner of my eye.

“Evan hasn’t seen me yet” I think to myself” if I sneak up on him he won’t be able to escape. And I turn from a ghoul to a ninja always staying in the shadows, while moving quickly. “Yes” I whisper in a quiet voice “almost there.” As I creep up I pounce on him, but he's fast, and gets out the way. “Are you it” he asked “answer me, are you it.” “What do you

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Suspense In Melanie Kendry's Curve Learn

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The Cask Of Amontillado Suspense

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Suspense In Poe's The Black Cat

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A Jury Of Her Peers Summary

elements explained in Perrine’s Literature, “Plot and Structure” seem to be easily identified and the most superficial. Plot can be defined simply as “What happened?” The structure, however is the complex meaning BEHIND the plot. Analyzing the short story “A Jury of Her Peers”, for example, can reveal the different aspects of plot and structure. Protagonist Minnie Wright is under the suspicion of committing murder against her late husband, John Wright. As the antagonists Martha Hale, Mr. Hale,…

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The Most Dangerous Game And The Cask Of Amontillado

Levels of Suspense Connell and Poe are both authors of short stories that give many different pieces of the suspenseful mood. In Connell’s story “The Most Dangerous Game” he gives pieces of suspense one after another which is more appealing to the modern audience. In Poe’s story “The Cask of Amontillado” he gradually gives pieces of suspense at a slower pace. Both authors use this suspenseful mood, but take different approaches at giving them. The author of “The Most Dangerous Game,” Connell, uses…

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The Pit And The Minister's Black Veil Macabre

to death.It is still used in many stories and is continued to be a popular way of writing to this day, because it is able to hold the audience’s attention by really bringing out the suspense and forshadowing of any story.The Devil and Tom Walker, The Pit and the Pendulem, and the Minister’s black Veil contain examples of macabre events that add suspense to the short stories. Washington Irving uses the macabre event of Tom’s wife being killed by the devil.The Story is about a poor man named Tom Walker…

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The Masque Of The Red Death Short Story

when they do, you jump anyways. That feeling you have is suspense. In the short story “The Masque of the Red Death”, the author, Edgar Allan Poe, uses suspense in many different ways. The two main ways that suspense is used is foreshadowing and symbolism. Without these types of writing, the feeling of suspense would be absent from the story. The first way that Edgar Allan Poe uses suspense is the use of foreshadowing. In this short story, he used a lot of foreshadowing. One example of foreshadowing…

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Suspense In Kate Chophin's The Story Of An Hour

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August Heat Foreshadowing

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