Cast Amontillado Mood

In many of Poe's works, Poe uses many literary techniques to help contribute to the story. In the story "The Cast Amontillado", by Edgar Allan Poe, Poe uses; suspense, setting, and tone to help contribute to the story and set the mood of horror and dread in the story.

In the text, the author's use of suspense drastically changes the mood, which is easily seen in the short story, and as found in the text, " It wasnotthe cry of a drunken man. There was then a long and obstinate silence.", which when read in the text, presents the reader a erie feeling of dread to what may happen next. Due to this sentence's ability to cast the illusion of a horror setting, it presents the reader with the mood that Poe was attempting to convey in the catacombs. …show more content…
With vivid imagery that describes the setting it contributes to the mood's placement in the story, more specifically in the story where in the text it states, "bowed him through several suites of rooms to the archway that led into the vaults. I passed down a long and winding staircase, requesting him to be cautious as he followed. We came at length to the foot of the descent, and stood together on the damp ground of the catacombs of the Montresors." which places the setting deep underground, where it is wet, cold and dark where their way it lit by that of a dim torch. In addition to the setting, when it is mentioned that the crypt is cold, it is found in the text here, ."The nitre!" I said: "see, it increases. It hangs like moss upon the vaults.'", where nitre is commonly known for being tremendously cold, and with the fact that the crypt lays covered, "like moss", with is shows that it is extremely cold, yet not freezing because of the description of damp in the