PATHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The author creates suspense by describing the sound of the old man’s heartbeat as what sound? The author describes the old man’s heartbeat as a watches ticking sound. 4. The narrator is overconfident after killing the old man when he describes what?

Detailed explanation-2: -As he waits, the heartbeat which he heard excited him to uncontrollable terror, for the heart seemed to be “beating . . . louder [and] louder.” The narrator was suddenly aware that the old man’s heartbeat was so loud that the neighbors might hear it.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Tell-Tale Heart contained suspense created through point-of-view, irony, and diction. Point-of-view is the how the story is being observed. The Tell-Tale Heart is told in an unreliable first person point-of-view, meaning that the reader only knows the thoughts of the narrator.