2In “The Tell-Tale Heart,” Poe uses the following image to describe a static scene: “His room was pitch black with thick darkness… .” Poe used the words “black,” “pitch,” and “thick darkness” to not only show the reader the conditions of the old man's room, but also to make the reader feel the darkness. a word that is not usually associated with color (darkness), however, in using it, Poe stimulates the reader's sense of feeling and sight. In the first sentence of the second paragraph (first body paragraph) the words "sense" and "manipulation" are used to hook into the end of the introductory paragraph. The first part of the second sentence provides the topic of this paragraph: images in a static scene, then a quote from "The Tell-Tale Heart" is presented and briefly discussed. The last sentence of this paragraph uses the expressions "sense of feeling" and "sense of sight" as hooks to lead to the third
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