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Edgar Allan Poe's Diction Analysis

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Poe’s eerie diction additionally puts forth more discomforting thoughts that can only be broken by one’s will-power. Every aspect about the plot, every detail within the setting, and every tumultuous noise forces the narrator to ponder his survival: “Then, very suddenly, thought, and shuddering terror, and earnest endeavor to comprehend my true state.” Poe’s somber diction continuously enforces the readers to acknowledge the extent of the depressed, dark setting. One of such intensity that the “blackness of eternal night” “seemed to oppress and stifle” the narrator, encompassing him in the fear that he will die in the pit. Poe further oppresses the narrator by giving the pit the connotation of a “dungeon” and having him realize that the pit

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