Ray Bradbury ones said “Evil only has one power that we give it”. He is ecpresing that as long as we believe in what is scaring us it will keep being a thret. In both the stories “Devil and Tom Walker” and “Fall of the House of Usher” the authors are expressing there out lookes on fear in meny ways. They both use different riting syles to show the leson or theme of there short stores. Both also use many literary elements in their stories; many of the elements the same and different. One of these similarities is the use of metaphors. In “The Devil and Tom Walker” One of these metaphors is “That the sinners were shaken down to their knees”. Washington Irving is I'm using the fact that to pray you need to be on your knees and sinners do not pray, but the consequence will be so bad that they would want to pray. an example ofmetaphors in Edgar Allan Poe's “All of the house of Usher” is "Bending closely over him, I at length drank in the hideous import of his words...." …he is explaining how after spending so much time with Usher he is beginning to go crazy: just like him. …show more content…
Washington Irving Rote “The one on which he had been seated, and which had evidently just been hewn down, bore the name of Crowninshield; and he recollected a mighty rich man of that name, who made a vulgar display of wealth, which it was whispered he had acquired by buccaneering.”. We later find out that this man made a deal with the devil and the devil made him very rich just like he makes Tom rich later on but the man had a consequence like how Tom will eventually have a consequence. hose use of foreshadowing in “The Fall of The House of Usher” came from Roderick Usher "I must perish in this bounden slave". He is foreshadowing his death and how it will be within the