Situational Irony In The Cask Of Amontillado
Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe is recognized for the detective stories, and wanted to be known as a poet. Edgar has a great impact in America because he has an NFL team named after him and a has a parody after his story “The Raven” on the Simpsons Show. Edgar Allan Poe’s style is characterized by his use of sound imagery, irony, and repeated elements, which he uses to create an emotional effect for his readers. In Edgar Allan Poe’s story “The Cask of Amontillado” he uses sound imagery to describe Fortunato’s sickness. The quote from “The Cask of Amontillado” to describe Fortunato’s sickness is “Enough, ‘he said; ‘the cough is a mere nothing; it will not kill me. I shall not die from a cough.” For this sound imagery you should feel horror
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The example Poe uses to describe the situational irony is “On the morrow he will leave me as my Hopes have flown before. ‘Then the bird said, ‘Nevermore.’ ” The sorrow over the death of a loved one helps the situational irony because, the Raven is the sorrow over Lenore’s death and its saying that it will never leave, neither the raven nor the sorrow. In the story, “Tell-Tale Heart” Poe uses darkness as a repeated element to describe horror of permitted death. The example Edgar Allan Poe to feel horror is “His room was as black a pitch with the thick darkness”. Edgar Allan Poe uses that exact example for repeated element of darkness to create fear inside.
Edgar Allan Poe uses sound imagery, irony, and repeated elements as his style for the stories “The Cask of Amontillado” ,“The Raven”, and “Tell-Tale Heart”. He uses Fortunato’s sickness as a sound imagery for the story “The Cask of Amontillado”. For “The Raven” Poe uses sorrow over the death of a loved one as situational irony. Least of all, Poe uses the story “Tell-Tell Heart” for for horror of permitted death. Edgar Allan Poe uses all of these elements in all of his story and those aren’t all of his stories there are
The example Poe uses to describe the situational irony is “On the morrow he will leave me as my Hopes have flown before. ‘Then the bird said, ‘Nevermore.’ ” The sorrow over the death of a loved one helps the situational irony because, the Raven is the sorrow over Lenore’s death and its saying that it will never leave, neither the raven nor the sorrow. In the story, “Tell-Tale Heart” Poe uses darkness as a repeated element to describe horror of permitted death. The example Edgar Allan Poe to feel horror is “His room was as black a pitch with the thick darkness”. Edgar Allan Poe uses that exact example for repeated element of darkness to create fear inside.
Edgar Allan Poe uses sound imagery, irony, and repeated elements as his style for the stories “The Cask of Amontillado” ,“The Raven”, and “Tell-Tale Heart”. He uses Fortunato’s sickness as a sound imagery for the story “The Cask of Amontillado”. For “The Raven” Poe uses sorrow over the death of a loved one as situational irony. Least of all, Poe uses the story “Tell-Tell Heart” for for horror of permitted death. Edgar Allan Poe uses all of these elements in all of his story and those aren’t all of his stories there are