what repetition does poe in The Pit and the Pendulum use to emphasize the tension within the text?
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The story "Pit in the Pendulum" is the narrator by the story for the victim with a protagonist in character within the story the reader who was the first person and knew sadly by the consequence with the little person.
They will finally awake after the unfamiliar action which they pass out. The panic brain by the narrator is the moment to a rising upside.
"Down—steadily down it crept. . . Down—certainly, relentlessly down!..
Down—still unceasingly—still inevitably down! "
Poe built the tension in the “Pit in the Pendulum” by considering the narrator as the victim and protagonist of the story.
Poe uses different kinds of repetition to create tension in the story and he repeats the words and phrases to build the tension in the reader’s mind.
For example, he has written “I believe, is when the pendulum is working its way down to the narrator.”