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Terror in The Tell-Tale Heart
do? It was A LOW,DULL, QUICK SOUND-- MUCH SUCH A SOUNDS AS A WATCH MAKES WHEN ENVELOPED IN COTTON. I gasped for breath, and yet the officers heard not. I talked more quickly, more vehemently but the noise steadily increased. I arose and argued about trifles, in a high key and with violent gesticulations; but the noise steadily increased. (4)
The narrator is now seen trapped in the conversation with the officers. The images that are formed makes a picture of the narrator appear in the readers head, and almost feels as though he or she is in the situation with the narrator. The sound of the heart being the muffled is formed when Poe describes the sound like a watch being enveloped in cotton. The scary images formed within the story paint the picture of the horrifying actions taking place.
Edgar Allan Poe used the pain he had inside of him to write, which most people lead to thinking he was crazy. With Poe?s diction anyone who reads this short story can pick out the horrendous mood formed. The suspenseful sentence structure leaves the reader hanging and wanting to read more of what is to come with the story. But by far the images that are formed throughout the short story ? The Tell-Tale Heart? is the main contributor to the feeling of terror given by Poe. The Tell-Tale Heart by Edar Allan Poe