The opening of The Tell-Tale Heart

Finally, let’s turn our attention back to the start of the snippet. There’s something there we haven’t talked about yet.

The first statement starts with an exclamation—and exclamations are another way of showing intensity.

In this case, while it shows the narrator is convinced that what he is saying is true, it’s so extreme and shouty that we wonder if it’s false.

Let’s add a few exclamations to our simplified snippet.