1. Suspense in The House of the Seven Gables
... syntactical style, igniting imagination with suggestive language, and frustrating the reader with a limited perspective. By presenting the reader with the anxious experience of extended mental uncertainty in a mode akin to realism, he calls into question the reader's ability to perceive their world with clarity and confidence ... the room, but almost immediately returned, with a cry choking in her throat" (250). A major discovery is reduced to a single sentence-four simply constructed clauses, containing naught but a subject-predicate replication of the most essential action. The tersene...
- Word Count: 1547
- Approx Pages: 6
- Has Bibliography
- Grade Level: Graduate