How does the excerpt exemplify the ideas King describes in “Danse Macabre”? It allows readers to approach a “forbidden door.” It provides a “single powerful spectacle” for the imagination’s eye. It forces readers to “grapple” with their own mortality. It introduces an unlikely “dancing partner.”

What technique does Irving use to build suspense in the excerpt? The pace of the story quickens.

Read the excerpt from “The Adventure of the Mysterious Picture.” How was this vile nervous fit, for such I now persuaded myself it was, to be conquered? I determined to force myself not to look at the painting but to undress quickly and get into bed.

The excerpt from “The Adventure of the Mysterious Picture”, a story of the first part of the “Tales of the Traveler”, written by Washington Irving, an American author, that conveys the eerie, strange and frightening, tone of the passage is: “I heard the wind moan among the trees, I caught a reflection of this accursed …

This macabre tale starts with the advent of a deadly disease called ‘Red Death’. Its symptoms include, “sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution.

What is the meaning behind the hourly striking of the clock? death is unavoidable, time is of the essence; -reminds them that time is running out. How did the prince and his guests act like a disesase in a body? – disease goes throughout the body; -rooms represent stages; -people were going through rooms.

How does Prince Prospero react to the uninvited guest? He demands that they be captured and hanged for mockery. They use the dagger they are carrying to stab Prince Prospero while in the black, creepy room.