Shimmering pavement, asphalt heat. Stopped talking in eastern Utah,
after Shelby hit the roadkill and
fritzed the air conditioning. Maybe a
leg, a rib, of an armadillo in the
mechanism. Western Utah, eastern
Nevada, tongues gritty from tasting
the air, sweat pooling in elbows,
anywhere skin touched skin. Gwen
falls asleep driving, car shudders
over the rumble strip, waking both of them with shock, turning their blood to ice.

What techniques does the author use to build tension in this excerpt?

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brutus overlooks that the majority of the crowd served julius caesar the military general. he appeals to their citizenship as romans by calling them first by that name in his salutation: "romans, countrymen, lovers." mark antony, however, speaks in terms understood by the military, by calling them first by, "friends, romans, countrymen." he recalls not only caesar the general but caesar the friend, whose body they see covered with stab wounds.

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