Figurative Language with Edgar Allan Poe.
Imagine being a prisoner of war, and being psychologically tortured. During The Pit and the Pendulum, Poe perfectly portrays this scenario by using the setting, style, and conflict to paint a life threatening scene . By using repetition to emphasize during the climax, the audience is dared to continue reading. Will the man make it alive to fight against the enemy? He fights with himself of wanting to end the torture, but a deadly surprise is in store for him. Poe’s way of using the setting, conflict, and style take the audience through a gut wrenching roller coaster!
Any author knows, the setting of the story, is everything. Poe sets this story in a grungy cellar. The audience goes through despair when the protagonist realizes he miscounted the steps in the black cellar and finds himself in a different scene then he …show more content…
The conflict of this short story was the fact of the war. Edgar could have easily made the conflict over murdering someone like in other short stories of his. Although, the cause of his execution was unknown, it was still being done because of the war. His people seem to be giving his trial, assumption would determine that he betrayed his people in the war. Who really knows why he was on trial, he could have stolen a piece of bread. Much like other stories of Edgar’s this is another mystery, unsolved.
In The Pit and the Pendulum, Edgar uses repetition while the prisoner is bound to slab. He personifies the Pendulum as time and that death is always coming. By using repetition with the pendulum, it emphasises, and longs his death by making it creep down to his chest. The prisoner exclaims that it relentlessly came down and would go far and wide, much like a grandfather clock does. It is obvious personification, and repetition come fluently to Edgar, but in this particular short story, he seems to be infatuated with the use of
Imagine being a prisoner of war, and being psychologically tortured. During The Pit and the Pendulum, Poe perfectly portrays this scenario by using the setting, style, and conflict to paint a life threatening scene . By using repetition to emphasize during the climax, the audience is dared to continue reading. Will the man make it alive to fight against the enemy? He fights with himself of wanting to end the torture, but a deadly surprise is in store for him. Poe’s way of using the setting, conflict, and style take the audience through a gut wrenching roller coaster!
Any author knows, the setting of the story, is everything. Poe sets this story in a grungy cellar. The audience goes through despair when the protagonist realizes he miscounted the steps in the black cellar and finds himself in a different scene then he …show more content…
The conflict of this short story was the fact of the war. Edgar could have easily made the conflict over murdering someone like in other short stories of his. Although, the cause of his execution was unknown, it was still being done because of the war. His people seem to be giving his trial, assumption would determine that he betrayed his people in the war. Who really knows why he was on trial, he could have stolen a piece of bread. Much like other stories of Edgar’s this is another mystery, unsolved.
In The Pit and the Pendulum, Edgar uses repetition while the prisoner is bound to slab. He personifies the Pendulum as time and that death is always coming. By using repetition with the pendulum, it emphasises, and longs his death by making it creep down to his chest. The prisoner exclaims that it relentlessly came down and would go far and wide, much like a grandfather clock does. It is obvious personification, and repetition come fluently to Edgar, but in this particular short story, he seems to be infatuated with the use of