Response to The Tell-Tale Heart

Edgar Allan Poe is one of my favourite authors. He writes mystery stories that creep you out a bit. The Tall-Tale Heart was an unsolved mystery that filled me with suspense. It made my blood rush. Edgar uses extraordinary words that make his stories all the more interesting. His words fill the sentence with juice and gives them stronger meanings. Words like: dissimulation, vex, stealthily,audacity, vehemently, derision...... In his story, the line, " Meantime the hellish tattoo of the heart increased " is what caught my eye. The way he describes the beating of the character's heart is incredible! I wish that Poe could have lived a little longer to have written more stories.