Definition of 'succumb'. succumb. If you succumb to temptation or pressure, you do something that you want to do, or that other people want you to do, although you feel it might be wrong. Don't succumb to the temptation to have just one cigarette. The Minister said his country would never succumb to pressure.
Often by placing their characters in jeopardy. Here are some things that create suspense: 1  when the reader knows something the characters don't. 2  when the reader doesn't know something the characters do.  when the reader knows something is going to happen, but doesn't know what it will be.
With the centuries of buried dead around them and the dripping walls, it is literally a place of death and the reader becomes aware of this even before the ending is known. Through such uses of setting and description, Poe is able to create a sense of suspense that lasts throughout the story. This effect is even more potent because the beginning of the story offers readers an intriguing story of revenge without true motive.