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As previously mentioned, the author utilizes perspective in order to create powerful style and language. The writer implements a first person perspective in order to accomplish this. The writer mentions “Throughout the evening people came to warn me about themselves.” Using this first person perspective the author gives the reader insight on his perspective and how he perceives things. This adds upon the language and style as it revolves around this perspective.

Edgar Allan Poe is known for his knowledge of how to build and use suspense, but how does he do it? Poe has done many works in his time as a poet and he has mastered suspense in writing these works. He knows when and how to use suspense. In all of his story you can find at least one sentence of suspense. Edgar Allan Poe uses craft elements like short and choppy sentences, the setting, and very descriptive language to build suspense in his works.

is made through his use of punctuation, word choice, figurative language, tone, and sentence structure.

Throughout all of the short stories the author uses descriptive language and figurative languge to help the reader visualize the story the way the author intended it to be

Poe Style Analysis Essay “The Raven”, “The Cast of the Amontillado”, “The Tell-Tale Heart” these are all amazing pieces that Edgar Allan Poe made. All these stories have something in common, something so bland that it is unique to Edgar Allan Poe. In his stories Poe uses three techniques that let you know you are reading something made by Poe, mood, imagery, and point of view all of these combined make the reader feel anxiety and sorrow. One that I believe he works the best is imagery. Imagery, such a simple concept that many people get wrong, but not Poe he does this excellent. Poe uses imagery to the max he makes the readers see what is happening, like if the book was a movie. Imagery plays a big part in “The Tale-Tell Heart”; you can clearly

Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to parents who were traveling actors. His father David Poe Jr. died probably in 1810. Elizabeth Hopkins Poe died in 1811, leaving three children. Edgar was taken into the home of a merchant from Richmond named John Allan. The remaining children were cared for by others. Poe's brother William died young and sister Rosalie later became insane. At the age of five Poe could recite passages of English poetry. Later one of his teachers in Richmond said: "While the other boys wrote mere mechanical verses, Poe wrote genuine poetry; the boy was a born poet." Poe was brought up partly in England (1815-20), where he attended Manor School at Stoke Newington. Later it became the setting for

A virtuoso of suspense and horror, Edgar Allan Poe is known for his Gothic writing style. His style is created through his use of punctuation, sentence structure, word choice, tone, and figurative language. Punctuation-wise; dashes, exclamation marks, semicolons, and commas are a favorite of Poe. His sentences vary greatly; their structures are influenced by punctuation. Much of his word choice set the tone of his works. Figurative language colors his writings with description. Such is observed in the similarities between two of his most well-known short stories, “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Tell-Tale Heart”

He found a way to escape. His method was writing. He found so much in common

The Tormented Imagination of Edgar Allan Poe The work of Edgar Allan Poe is often closely associated with themes of weird fantasy, horror, and the macabre. It has long been assumed that Poe’s fascination with the macabre stemmed from an addiction to drugs and alcohol. These assumptions, however, are more myth than reality.

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the narrator to the brink of insanity; in which that he must get rid of it. He tells us, it is the eye, that he loves the old man, but the eye in which torments him so, must go! In the story, the narrator goes on to say “I think it was his eye! Yes, it was this! He had the eye of a vulture—a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me my blood ran cold; and so by degree—I make up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever.” (Poe). Here is when the theme of revenge comes into play. He watches the man for several nights plotting and scheming to wait for the perfect time to kill the old man. After the eighth night, he mistakenly alerts the old man of his presence, forcing him to enact his ploy of revenge by murdering him. To hide the evidence, he then proceeds to chop up the body and hide in under the floorboards. With the deed done, the narrator feels relief until the doorbell rings, at the door cops stand waiting to investigate a scream heard, after explaining the noise as his own from a dream, they then sit down and chat further. Again, we know the revenge taken was due to the ‘evil-eye’ and not because of the old man, guilt starts to flood the narrator’s conscious and paranoia sets in. Jennifer Bouchard’s article “Literary Contexts in Short Stories: Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Tall-Tale Heart’”, confirms yet again the narrators revenge on the eye of the old man, and how his murder began to affect his sanity. She goes on to

Another literary device present in the short story

The story doesn’t make much sense to a reader taking every word literally. Edgar Allen Poe wanted the reader to understand how all the actions of the people and the colors of the rooms and their order and the masked man were to show life and death. I believe the number of chambers (seven) may also have some meaning behind it as seven is the number of completeness or perfection in biblical studies. A life having seven stages, or chambers, from birth to death, showing that a human life contains all seven stages, makes each one of our lives complete. (100 words)

When looking at a piece of literature through a psychological approach it is easy to apply Sigmund Freud’s theories of the id, ego, and superego, which focus on conscious and unconscious behavior. When analyzing many of Poe’s works, critics tend to look through a psychological lens. Specifically in Poe’s The Black Cat. Some critics believe that Poe’s alcoholism is reflected in the piece, but many, such as James W. Gargano “advised the tales readers to avoid the biographical pitfall of seeing Poe and the first-person narrator of The Black Cat as ‘identical literary twins’” (Piacentino 1). It is due to his childhood that Poe’s narrator in The Black Cat subconsciously places animals before humans, thus leading to him to murder his wife.

“I love became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity”. Edgar Allan Poe is a man of wonders, creating gothic fiction stories and poems. Stories like “The Tell-Tale Heart” or “The Premature Burial” are short stories that would give you the feeling of suspense. Some of his stories also have a little of comedy or romance in it. Like “The Spectacles” comedy about love in first sight and “Eleonora” a story about his love life. Four stories/poems that caught my attention either because of the plot or how interesting it is. Those stories/poems are Ligeia, Berenice, The Spectacles and The Angel of the Odd.