Is it possible for the reader to ever be so close to a story, so close that they could almost be in it? So close, yet so far, from the future, that undeterminable,unpredictable future? The answer is yes, and it happens when the author of any story uses good literary terms to add a twist or anything that might keep the reader interested and on the edge of their seat. In “The Most Dangerous Game” Sanger Rainsford, a highly skilled hunter, learns even he can fall prey to something, or someone, else. In “The Cask of Amontillado” Montresor, a man who is desperate for revenge, buries his friend, Fortunato, alive. In the short stories "The Most Dangerous Game" and "The Cask of Amontillado," Richard Connell and Edgar Allen Poe both use imagery to
