The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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Suspense and Tension Analysis for the following quotes:

1) “There's nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That's their instinct. But this fish doesn't run from anything. He doesn't fear.”

2) “The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.”

3) “Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water...”

4) “Sharks have everything a scientist dreams of. They're beautiful―God, how beautiful they are! They're like an impossibly perfect piece of machinery. They're as graceful as any bird. They're as mysterious as any animal on earth. No one knows for sure how long they live or what impulses―except for hunger―they respond to. There are more than two hundred and fifty species of shark, and everyone is different from every other one.”

5) “He felt at once betrayed and betrayer, deceived and deceiver. He was a criminal forced into crime, an unwilling whore.”

6) “The great fish moved silently through the night water.”

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1) In context, this phrase creates suspense because it speaks to the fish's fears or lack thereof. It fears nothing, and it will not run away, it will simply defend itself..... or attack first.

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