Question

Read the excerpt from “The Black Cat."

For the most wild, yet most homely narrative
which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor
solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it,
in a case where my very senses reject their own
evidence. Yet, mad am I not—and very surely do
I not dream. But to-morrow I die, and to-day !
would unburthen my soul. My immediate purpose
is to place before the world, plainly, succinctly,
and without comment, a series of mere
household events. In their consequences, these
events have terrifiedhave tortured-have
destroyed me.
Which details support the idea that the first point of view creates as sense of suspense about what is to come in the story

Answer 1

The details that create the sense of suspense about what is to come in the story are the narrator's reactions and his words "these events have terrifiedhave tortured-have destroyed me."

Step-by-step explanation:

As we can see, as soon as the lines begin, the narrator begins to warn people that he is neither crazy nor dreaming. He is describing certain events that, according to him, have been traumatizing and have destroyed him.

Our position as readers is to wait for something that will generate suspense or fear, because the author is definitely not going to describe a pleasant scene.

Those are the clues we have to deduce the details of what is to come in the story.