Edgar Allan Poe is the author of “The Black Cat” and “The Cask of Amontillado”, he uses setting to his advantage for these stories. Authors use settings to convey certain feelings brought on by the character’s surroundings. In both the story, “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Black Cat” uses darkness to make the surroundings of the place dark and mysterious. Poe uses horrifying descriptive words in the setting of his stories to make the readers get into the atmosphere of the story and also uses different literary effects in both stories.
