How does the author want the reader to feel while reading "The Cask of Amontillado”? Poe wants to feel the unreliableness of Montresor and wants to create the gothic and spooky thrill of stories like his. What techniques does the author use to help you visualize the place, the people, and the events that are taking place within the story? Imagery was used throughout the story to describe the catacombs so that you can picture how dreary and a terrifying place it must be. As well as when Montresor describes Fortunato especially with “the wine twinkling in his eyes”.
In Virginia Woolf’s “A Haunted House,” the narrator tells the tale of a living couple’s interactions with a ghostly couple and the discoveries each made. Throughout the work, the narrator uses imagery of light and dark to convey meaning to the readers. Also, the narrator uses repetition in order to emphasize significant phrases or meanings in the work. Through these literary devices, the narrator reveals the importance of the couple’s discovery. Light and dark are very distinct images, and in this story they are used for very specific purposes.
Poe’s usage of literary devices and choice of words are what use to maintain the creepy feeling. The trepidation which characterizes the mood in Fall House of Usher is found through foreshadowing, allegory, and unity of both tone and diction. Poe uses foreshadowing to entice the readers and to hint at future events that may occur
“Instead of the usual short story elements of plot such as exposition, rising action, climax, and denouncement, Porter skillfully uses stream-of-consciousness not merely to delineate the character of Granny Weatherall but to tell her life’s story as well” (Britton). Even though it is written in third person, the story is told through stream-of-consciousness. This type of narration allows the reader to see into Granny Weatherall's conscious mind. While reading, one gets the sense of being an invisible character in the room as well as in Granny’s mind. “Porter conveys what it is like to be an eighty-year-old woman whose mind tends to wander by enabling readers
The door might symbolize transformation in the story and is described as “the most essential gesture in a boy’s life” (Meyer 297). Later, on page 300 the author refers to the door as ”the threshold that has welcomed them when they haven’t been able to welcome themselves”(Moody 300). We get intimate details of the boy’s life and the narrator helps us fill in the blanks using limited omnipotent narration. Jamaica Kincaid’s story, in contrast, is in second person, the mother is the narrator. Writing in second person is taboo in literature making the piece novel and avant-garde.
In life there is a death, or two that occur. Death is not literal in its definition or nature, but is a state. Two stories capture this stigmatic though in whole, through character observation. “A Rose For Emily”, by William Faulkner, is a story that draws you into the characters’ trials and tribulations to instigate the assumption of death. The other story, “The Cask of Amontillado”, by Edgar Allen Poe, draws you in with a child-like mentality of revenge and hostility to shut out the erroneous belief of kindness in the man’s heart.
Englisches Seminar Seminar: Introduction to American Studies Jasmin Dücker SoSe 2013 Tobias Ludwig Matrikel-Nr. 5610834 Essay: How do Washington Irving‘s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow“ (1820) and Edgar Allan Poe‘s “The Fall of the House of Usher“ (1839) incorporate supernatural events? Take into account narrator, narrative levels, plot, setting and characters. There is no doubt that the narrative perspective in John Updike‘s short story “WifeWooing“ is a very subjective one. Furthermore, the whole story seems to be about the personal emotions, impressions and thoughts of the narrator.
What struck me in the story "A Rose for Emily", is the unique point of view; rather than speaking in a single voice, the narrator uses a collective voice of "we", as though there are multiple observers. The purpose of using "we" is to speak for the town's citizens as the narrator to create a sense of familiarity between the reader and the story. The town carries the story of the progress of Emily's life and also judges her actions whether perceived or actual. The short story has a theme of corruption and evil. The opinions and comments reveal the mentality of the collective narrator, or the values of the town.
“A Rose for Emily,” by William Faulkner, was an interesting story about an abnormal woman in the community that everyone talked about. “We Real Cool,” by Gwendolyn Brooks, remind me of the stories my grandfather use to tell me about his community he grew up in. Reading literature is a great way to get in touch with yourself
West, Jr. criticizes “A Rose for Emily”. He shows interpretations of the use of time as a theme for the story. West also tries to show that the theme is man’s relation to time (Vartany, 189). It set two different attitudes about time against each other. The first, represented by Homer Baron, the North, and the new generation, consists of living in a rootless present and denying the past.