The narration in this passage becomes frantic and nervous, especially in describing the beat of the heart. What do the language describing the heart and the shorter sentences establish?
“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. Meanwhile, the hellish tattoo 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, I refrained and stood still. But the beating grew louder, and louder!”
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mood
tone
setting
foreshadowing
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