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The Single Emotional

Date Submitted: 11/17/2003 00:37:58
Category: / Literature / English
Length: 4 pages (985 words)
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The Single Emotional "Poeffect" Essay submitted by Unknown When reviewing Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Tales, Edgar Allen Poe pronounced that the short story, if skillfully written, should deliver a single preconceived effect- an effect upon which incidents be fashioned to accommodate that effect. Edgar Allen Poe was indeed a skillful writer. His short story, "The Fall of the House of Usher" is a flawless example of a story in which all elements contribute to the delivery …

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…style to one common cause, Poe creates a unified story, optimal of achieving a single emotional effect. Through diction, details, imagery, sentence structure-style-Poe develops a high degree of suspense as well as a perfect tone which remains constant throughout the story. It is clear that through his chosen style, Edgar Allen Poe has devised a believable tale of increasing terror that succeeds in leaving his audience with a powerful, single emotional effect of utmost terror

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