This dread was not exactly a dread of physical evil - and yet I should be at a loss
how otherwise to define it. I am almost ashamed to own-yes, even in this felor's
cell, I am almost ashamed to own that the terror and Horror with which the animal
inspired me, had been heightened by one of the merest chimaeras it would be
possible to conceive. My wife had called my attention, more than once, to the
character of the mark of white hair, of which I have spoken, and which constituted
the sole visible difference between the strange beast and the one I had destroyed.
The reader will remember that this mark, although large, had been originally very
indefinite; but, by slow degrees - degrees nearly imperceptible, and which for a long
time my Reason struggled to reject as fanciful-it had, at length, assumed a
rigorous distinctness of outline. It was now the representation of an object that I
shudder to name and for this, above all, I loathed, and dreaded, and would have rid
myself of the monster had I dared - it was now, I say, the image of a hideous- of a
ghastly thing of the GALLOWS! - oh, mournful and terrible engine of Horror and of
Crime - of Agony and of Death!
In the passage, what does Poe use to build suspense?
A repetition and figurative language
B personification and imagery
C varied sentence length and structure
D foreshadowing in flashback