In Homicide (David Simon) there is suspense the are a lot if retorical question and irony for example “do you think we took’em? This is a retorical question because he doesn’t expect him to answer to that.

Homicide is a very interesting because they create suspense by putting you in the shoes of the criminal this creates because you are getting interigating and asked question you might not even know how to answer.simon also creates suspense by asking you question about the crime and you might not even know what the crime is.

One way Simon (Homicide) creates suspense by using retorical question,this helps with suspense.you are in the criminal’s position and you are getting interigating and you don’t know what to say,such as when you are getting asked about the crime,you don’t know if it is retorical or not,because you weren’t actually at the scene when it happens.

Simon also uses irony (verbal irony) I think that he uses irony to create suspense for example when he asks a question that mean the opposite, such as when the detective said “you want a lawyer we will give a good one”he is trying to make him feel that he is going to get a good lawyer but he might mean the opposite of what he is was saying.

Simon likes to create suspense because it gets the reader interested in the book because reader sometimes like suspense and asked question within the book,sometimes you will not know how to answer them and that makes you try to find out what the question is.

Simon also uses dramatic irony because we know that the detective is asking question that the criminal dosen’t know what he is trying to say,but we do know what the criminal said he wants a lawyer and the detective said you will get a good lawyer we know that he is just saying that to get him to confess.

Simon also creates a lot of tension between the criminal and the detective.The way he creates tension is by asking questions eg:”he came at you HUH?”the detective creates tension by asking these sorts of question because he wants the criminal to confess him crimes and to be locked up this is putting tension on the criminal because criminal dosen’t know if he should answer or nor but he did answer this creates more tension because he answered and now anything could happen to him.

Overall I think that Simon uses a lot of suspense to make his writing more interesting.throughout Homicide David Simon also writes in first person to put you in the spot of the criminal and to show how you will react to what is happening,He also wants us to see how we will feel about the situation.Another way Simon creates suspense is using irony this helps to set the scene of the suspense and for the reader to be more in trestles about the scene.Overall I think that Simon does create suspense in his writing to get the reader more into the book.