How does Poe create suspense in "The Pit and the Pendulum" through the use of various literary devices? What are the different types of suspense...

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master at using a number of literary devices in his works.is one of his most famous stories. In
this story he sets up great suspense and a wonderful use of literary devices.

The story opens with a man on trial. It is during the Spanish Inquisition, and the
narrator is telling us his story of what has happened to him. We don't know why he is on trial,
and there are seven tall candles on a table. As he watches the candles melt her feels his hope
for surviving diminish. As he goes to the torture chamber, we see Poe using his literary
devices. Poe uses a couple different devices to make us see what is happening. He uses
anadiplosis, which is when the last word or words of a sentence is used as the first word or
words in the next sentence.

"That I could not force my imagination to
regard as unreal. Unreal even when I breathed." The next example could be "For the
moment at last I was free. Free and in the grasp of the inquisition" these are just a
couple of examples he uses.

He also uses vivid descriptions of things. When
he wants to really make something stand out to the reader, he uses such great descriptions. The
description of the torture chamber is an example of this. 

"I now
observed with what horror it is needless to say, that its nether extremity was formed of a
crescent of glittering steel, about a foot in length from horn to horn; the horns upward and the
under edge evidently as keen as that of a razor appended to a weighty rod of
brass."

He also uses symbolism throughout all of his works. The darkness
of the torture chamber is a symbol of the darkness happening during the inquisition.

The suspense we feel is so very clever. We have suspense in the fact that we have no
clue what the narrator is on trial for. What was his crime? When he is in the torture chamber,
we have no idea what is going to happen to him or how far the torturer is willing to go. We see
that the narrator is frightened by what he sees at the bottom of the pit, although we are not
told what it is he has seen. We are left wondering the horrors of what could be at the bottom.
Edgar Allan Poe was so creative in his works. He uses words and descriptions that put the reader
inside the story.