... , there was a fire that burned down his house. Soon the man wants another cat, and find an identical one, except for a white patch on its chest. He takes the cat home to his wife. As time passes, he believes the white patch changes its shape to look like a gallow, and he then begins to hate the second cat. One day down in ... come back a second time and go down into the cellar and this time they hear a loud shriek coming from behind the wall. The police tear down the wall where the noise came from and find the wife's body, with the cat sitting on top of her head. Is this the first cat's ...

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... 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 them and the only noise that can be heard is that of their self. This sets the whole mood for the rest of the story. Poe uses elaborate words in "The Masque of Red Death ... had distinguished him from the first, through the blue chamber to the purple-through the purple to the green-through the green to the orange-through this again to the white-and even thence to the violet, ere a decided movement had been made to arrest him" (180). This give...

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