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The 1985 American Express card commercial starring the famous author Stephen King is particularly effective in its cleverness to full audiences. The ad relies strongly on the fallacy of appeal to authority and the scare tactic of the unknown. Urgency and fear have been created ingeniously in its tone and imagery. Although the ad does strongly use this fallacy and an underlined emotion of fear to persuade its audience, the result is enormously effective. First, the ad starts with lightning…

Have you ever imagined death? Imagine listening to a clock ticking down until it reaches your final hour. What if you didn’t know it was your final hour? How would you feel? Would you be nervous at every chime of the clock? I know I would. In the story, “Masque of the Red Death,” Edgar Allen Poe uses a clock as his suspense device. I believe that he chose it because clocks make people nervous and jittery. Every time a clock hand moves, you are an hour, a minute, a second, or even a…

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…

Descriptive detail, repetitive phrases, and the passing of time are used to convey a suspenseful mood in both the stories “The Cask of Amontillado,” by Edgar Allan Poe, and “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell. A suspenseful mood of the story can be portrayed by displaying a sense of time passing. For example, when Montresor was building up the walls of the recess, he heard the moaning of Fortunato, but then afterword mentions, “There was then a long and obstinate silence” (Poe 11). This…

Edgar Allan Poe's repeated use of imagery conveys the his message of one being manipulated by one's own guilt and fear. One of the first examples of imagery is the narrator's description of the old man's blue eye. He claims the old man's "eye was like the eye of a vulture," and describes the continual "cold feeling" he experiences every time he sees the blue eye. The narrator's utilization of the dynamic imagery is to support his his actions as sane as he claims the old man's vulture preys upon…

Gabriel Garcia Marquez is famously known for his magical realism elements in his stories. Marquez uses different elements of magical realism in order to form a story that addresses different aspect that is most difficult and meaningful to the real world. In Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novel, Love in the Time of Cholera magical realism is quite used in some elements. Love in the Time of Cholera could be argued as a magical realism novel in some way not completely. It has those aspects that are…

A cold and bitter feeling is in the atmosphere on this night. Darkness consumed the small, but promising colony of Massachusetts. A type of night where only those who lurk in the shadows resurface to meet with the black man. Or maybe even a person who has something sinful bearing on their mind, is lurking around as well. This exact depiction of night is the setting for chapter 12, The Ministers Vigil; and the man responsible for the creation of The Scarlet Letter is, “the most significant…

The Gothic Genre and “The Raven” The word “Gothic” usually suggests adolescents in dark makeup and loud music. In literature though, “Gothic” means something much different. The Gothic genre sets itself apart from other literary genres in many ways. Gothic works usually take place in a strange, mysterious setting and have themes of extreme mental and/or physical isolation. The Gothic genre is also known for the sentiment of the frightening unfamiliar, that is also strangely familiar. The…

Suspense. Tension. These two words are often the main feature of gothic literature, both traditional and contemporary. ‘The Signalman’ written by Charles Dickens in the year of 1866 is an example of traditional gothic literature. In contrast to that is Roald Dahl’s ‘Lamb to the Slaughter’, which is written in the year of 1953, is an example of contemporary gothic literature. Both stories create suspense and tension in a different but a similar way. In ‘The Signalman’, imagery, which is symbols…

In the short story “The Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator commits the heinous crime of murder. The relationship between the narrator and the old man was they liked each other at the beginning, at the middle of the story the old man said that he didn't like narrator's eye which changed the defendants feelings about the old man, at the end you can conclude that Edgar Allan poe did kill the old man. Eger also had hearing voices which drove him crazy which could have led to the murder…