Compare And Contrast Pit And Pendulum And The Fall Of The House Of Usher

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Within “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “Pit and Pendulum”, Poe expresses his writing techniques. By reading just two of his works it is easy to tell that there is a pattern. All of his works include something dark and are very suspenseful. Edgar Allan Poe has a very unique style of writing, within his writing he discusses many different ideas including imagery , repetition, and suspenseful build.
Poe sets the mood of his story with great detail. He builds a setting that puts an image in your mind. In “The Fall of the House of Usher”, Poe starts off the story with the image of “ a dull, dark, and soundless day” (Usher 1). By setting the mood early on, it allows the story to carry out the darkness. In Poe’s “Pit and Pendulum” the mood is also dark. He creates an image by writing he was in a dungeon and that he was alone in silence, until the scene of the rats. As Poe states that the rats were eating his food he gives enough detail to draw your mind an image: “A slight noise attracted my …show more content…

By repeating words in his stories it makes you seem like that is bound to happen. Throughout the “Pit and Pendulum” words like death, darkness and down were used. All of these words made you assume that the character was going to die as he got deeper down in the dungeon. Without repeating multiple dark words it would not give Poe’s writing the same effect on the reader. In the other story we read in class, “The Fall of the House of Usher”, Poe repeats the word hypochondriac. This word brings to mind that someone is losing their mind. Another word that was used throughout this story was horror. Poe’s character was terrified of of the dark horrifying times that came from having the pendulum get closer and closer. Lastly in this works, Poe kept repeating “House of Usher” which amplified the story or the house in general. With using repetition in all of his stories it builds the suspense which is another idea of Poe’s

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