... time, space, and action working together to achieve the "certain unique or single effect". In "The Fall of the House of Usher-, Poe uses diction, imagery, and foreshadowing to convey his one single effect of gloom. In "The Fall of the House of Usher- Edgar Allan Poe uses many ... different literary devices to convey his single effect of dullness and gloom. Above all of these devices centers Poe's use of diction throughout the short story. Even in the opening paragraph, where he uses such words and phrases as "dull-, "insufferable gloom-, "utter depression of the ... use of many similar ...

• Word Count: 1744
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

... make his writing distinctive. In "Battle Royal" by Ralph Ellison, and "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe, the authors make use of the different style techniques of foreshadowing, diction and vocabulary, setting significance, similes, and sight details in comparable ways. Both Ellison and Poe make use of foreshadowing to add suspense and dimension to their stories. Ellison uses foreshadowing ... of the story. Both authors use foreshadowing, but in "The Cask of Amontillado", the use of this style element in more salient. Also, Ellison and Poe use specific vocabulary and diction ...

• Word Count: 1443
• Approx Pages: 6

... the Arabesque"" (1840) that the terror he meant to create was "not of the Germany, but of the soul." Poe successfully developed a mysterious atmosphere by using such literary crafts as diction, foreshadowing and so forth, and evoked readers' terror by providing few details over the narration. The literary crafts used in "The Fall of the House of Usher"" and their effects ... mentioned several times in simply one paragraph "was "a sense of insufferable gloom. "The setting is essentially traditional Gothic: a desolate scene and an isolated castle, and along with the oppressive diction the...

• Word Count: 1692
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... going on. The fifth element is Style. Style is the way writers assemble their words to tell the story. There are many aspects of style. Diction for example is the qualities of the writer's word choices. Poe's diction is unmistakably formal. He uses very elegant and complicated words: "And a brute beast- whose fellow I had contemptuously destroyed-a brute beast to work out for ... ...

• Word Count: 2283
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School