In “The Fall of the House of Usher” Poe uses a great deal of ornate language to describe the setting of the story. He creates an extremely gloomy mood that he reader can actually begin to feel. The setting is described as “During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens”(160). Poe doesn’t just say that the story takes place on an autumn day or that the clouds are hanging low. He describes the autumn day as “dull, dark, and soundless” and the clouds as “oppressively low.” This gives the reader the picture of a dark autumn day where the clouds are so low that the reader can actually feel

In “The Tell Tale Heart” Edgar Allan Poe uses a different approach in creating the mood by choosing to use unsure diction, which makes the speaker sound insane. The narrator doesn’t know why he killed the old man in the story and as the story progresses he tries to decide why. The narrator says, “It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain, but, once conceived, it haunted me day and night. Object there was none. Passion there was none. I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye! Yes it was this! One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture_ _ a pale blue eye with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me my blood ran cold, and so by degrees, very gradually, I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever” (The Tell Tale Heart). This type shaky diction serves to depict unmistakable insanity.

them and the only noise that can be heard is that of their self. This sets the whole mood

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