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This 5 page report discusses Edgar Allan Poe’s writing style and presents an example of a short story written with Poe’s techniques that include foreshadowing, a very present narrating force, metaphor, and a subtle mounting of a level of tension that cannot be easily identified. No secondary sources.
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fulfill itself in the fashion she envisioned. Yes, she had planned it out well and certainly she had covered all the proverbial bases. I begged her not to
go through with it but she succinctly reminded me that as I had no children, much less a husband, I was clearly not a source of authority on her predicament.
I have kept that in mind for nearly 14 years . . . "not a source of authority." I have never forgotten that I warned her and I have
never forgotten that I was "not a source of authority." Edgar Allan Poes stories almost always had a narrator that presented himself as
a character in the story by virtue of his telling the story but not necessarily an active participant. The narrator is close to the primary characters but, still, an
observer. He usually presents himself (initially) as somewhat dispassionate but well-spoken and of sensible discernment. He demonstrates his own intelligence, as well as the fact that he has known
there was something "not quite right" about the person or situation he is about to discuss. The narrator establishes the sense that something has been foreshadowed that will not
turn out for the good. A student working on this project can see that the following sentences present something of the tone Poes narrators generally adopt: "His conduct greatly astonished
me; yet I thought it prudent not to exacerbate the growing moodiness of his temper by any comment."-The Gold Bug (1843); "For myself, however, I was mentally discussing certain topics
which had formed matter for conversation between us at an earlier period." The Purloined Letter (1845); and, "The chateau into which my valet had ventured to make forcible entrance, rather
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