Some figures of speech
include:
Allegories- The moss growing outside of a decaying
estate which was formerly grandiose and sumptuous; the dead sister; the inevitability of
Usher's appareance, and the fall from glory of the House of Usher are all allegories to
fate and its control over our lives: How the influences that we cannot control at times
end up taking up our inner self, and then spits us
out.
Anaphora- The repetition of words or phrases within
one same paragraph in order to balance out the narration and enhance the storytelling
process:
I
looked upon the scene before me–upon the
mere house, and the simple landscape features of the
domain–upon the bleak walls–upon the
vacant eye-like windows–upon a few rank
sedges–and upon a few white trunks of decayed
treesMany minutes,
many hours, many days, have I
heard it
Alliteration: Poe
describes many things using the same first letter such as the
words:
feeble
and futilecadaverous
corpsesicing, a sinkin, a sickening of the
heart
Rythm: As with
everything Poe writes, he always wants to give balance through
rhyme:
readability="9">Oppresicely, melancholy, destructively,
agonizingly, etc.
No comments:
Post a Comment