Give examples of the ways Poe creates suspense in these lines. Why do these phrases create suspense? makes when enveloped in cotton. I knew that sound well too.

It was the beating of the old man’s heart. It increased my fury,

as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage.

But even yet I refrained and kept still. I scarcely breathed.

I held the lantern motionless. I tried how steadily I could

maintain the ray upon the eye. Meantime the hellish tattoo[4]

of the heart increased. It grew quicker and quicker, and louder

and louder every instant. The old man’s terror must have been

extreme! It grew louder, I say, louder every moment!—do you

mark me well? I have told you that I am nervous: so I am. And

now at the dead hour of the night, amid the dreadful silence

of that old house, so strange a noise as this excited me to

uncontrollable terror. Yet, for some minutes longer I refrained

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