Discussion: Suspense: Literature & Language Coursework
Choose any two of this week's assigned works by Poe, O'Connor, and Carter for your main discussion post and examine how your selections build a sense of terror or suspense. How do the authors use details like (for example) language and setting to achieve this? Poe, for instance, makes use of repetition and rhyme in "The Raven," while Carter's lush, dense prose brings the vampire in her disintegrating castle vividly to life (so to speak). Meanwhile, O'Connor's story invokes the idea of a remote, crumbling castle with its reference to the old plantation house and the lonely dirt road where the family finds themselves stranded. You might also discuss how your chosen stories (or story and poem) offer social commentary or critique.(the two works I have chosen are Angela Carter's "The Lady of the House of Love," and Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven" )
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Discussion: Suspense
In the poem titled The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe creates a strong sense of suspense. He utilizes different poetic devices to make such a mood. First, we can see that repetition is utilized throughout the poem. In many instances, repetition is usually used in poetry for emphasis. However, Poe uses it to build tension using acts such as “tapping, tapping” and the “entreating entrance at my chamber door” (Poe). Another poetic device that Poe uses to create suspense is the use of the rhyme scheme. In The Raven, Poe uses the rhyme scheme ABCBBB. With the continuous return of the B rhyme, the author creates suspense and makes the reader to hurry through the poem. He uses these devices to make the readers think that there is something more they will discover. Finally, the dialogue within the poem also contributes to the suspense created ...
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