https://padlet.com/jschieferly/htu976mn7lpjua2l Review the three different examples of imagery. Explain how any one of these examples builds tension and suspense. Bonus: They typically contain other examples of figurative language (personification, simile, or metaphor). Try to explain the deeper meaning. en-us 2022-02-09 11:32:51 UTC 2025-12-03 17:55:05 UTC hello@padlet.com jschieferly https://padlet.com/jschieferly/htu976mn7lpjua2l/wish/2037740453 Yes, he had been trying to comfort himself with these suppositions: but he had found all in vain. All in vain; because Death, in approaching him had stalked with his black shadow before him, and enveloped the victim. And it was the mournful influence of the unperceived shadow that caused him to feel --although he neither saw nor heard --to feel the presence of my head within the room.]]> 2022-02-09 12:19:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jschieferly/htu976mn7lpjua2l/wish/2037740453 jschieferly https://padlet.com/jschieferly/htu976mn7lpjua2l/wish/2037740563 So I opened it --you cannot imagine how stealthily, stealthily --until, at length a simple dim ray, like the thread of the spider, shot from out the crevice and fell full upon the vulture eye. It was open --wide, wide open --and I grew furious as I gazed upon it. I saw it with perfect distinctness --all a dull blue, with a hideous veil over it that chilled the very marrow in my bones; but I could see nothing else of the old man's face or person: for I had directed the ray as if by instinct, precisely upon the damned spot. 

]]> 2022-02-09 12:19:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jschieferly/htu976mn7lpjua2l/wish/2037740563 jschieferly https://padlet.com/jschieferly/htu976mn7lpjua2l/wish/2037740680 Now you may think that I drew back --but no. His room was as black as pitch with the thick darkness, (for the shutters were close fastened, through fear of robbers,) and so I knew that he could not see the opening of the door, and I kept pushing it on steadily, steadily. I had my head in, and was about to open the lantern, when my thumb slipped upon the tin fastening, and the old man sprang up in bed, crying out --"Who's there?"]]> 2022-02-09 12:19:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jschieferly/htu976mn7lpjua2l/wish/2037740680