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Comparative study of Poe Edgar Allen Poe is a short stories writer known horror stories. He uses literay devices in his stories. In Tell- Tale Heart, The Masque of Red Death, and the Cask of Amontillado, Poe uses imagery, foreshowing, and mood. Poe uses vivid imagery in his stories to create the setting of the stories. In Tell-Tale Heart. He tells describe about old man’s eye that man hate old man’s eye “he had the eye of a vulture – a pale blue eye, with a film over it. In The Masque of Red Death. He tell about the earn 1000 people to go their home. There has every color was a different color “one room was blue; the second room was purple, the third green, the fourth orange, the fifth white and the sixth violet. The seventh room was hung with black velvet curtains, while the floor was covered with a carpet of the material.” In The Cask of Amontillado. He tells about in wall. “Its wall had been lined with human remains…three sides of this interior crypt were still ornamented in this manner. From the fourth the bones had been thrown down.” Poe uses foreshadowing in this story to hint of what will happen. In Tell-Tale Heart. “I undid it just so much that a single thin ray fell upon the vulture eye.” In The Masque of Red Death. People heard something. “There arose from the whole company a buzz of surprise. Then small sound of terror, horror, and disgust. In The Cask of Amontillado. Fortunato insult Montressor. “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had brine as I best could.” Poe uses mood in his short stories to create a scary feel to his stories. In Tell-Tale Heart. He tells what this stories mood is nervous, kill old man, evil eye, and he not a crazy. In The Masque of Red Death. He tell what their mood is horror, blood, strange, and very DEATH!!! In The Cask of Amontillado. He tell what their mood is insult, renevege, impunity, trick, pride, and drunk. Poe uses imagery, foreshadowing, and mood in his writing. Poe uses imagery mostly. His write help reader to understanding and get an idea from stories book.