Literary Techniques Used In Edgar Allen Poe's Short Stories
Edgar Allen Poe used the literary device of setting to create a dark, threatening tone in his short story by using 4 primary elements of setting. Those 4 elements of setting that he used are: Time of day, elapsed time, locale, mood and atmosphere.
The Elapsed Time and The Time of Day. Some examples of this are: 7 midnights that the murder tried to kill the old man with his eye open because the old man wasn’t the one who vexed him but his “Evil Eye” (538:2). At the 7 and final midnight he tried to enter the old man’s room but the old man heard the murder and said “who is there?” (538:2). “The murder kept quiet and doesn’t move a muscle for a whole hour” (539:9).
The Elapsed Time and The Time of Day. Some examples of this are: 7 midnights that the murder tried to kill the old man with his eye open because the old man wasn’t the one who vexed him but his “Evil Eye” (538:2). At the 7 and final midnight he tried to enter the old man’s room but the old man heard the murder and said “who is there?” (538:2). “The murder kept quiet and doesn’t move a muscle for a whole hour” (539:9).