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Comparing The Tell Tale Heart And The Cask Of Amontillado

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There are so many different ways to relay a message to a reader using different types of figure of speeches, symbolism being one of the greatest forms of figure of speech. Symbols uses ideas or qualities to represent indirect suggestions to express emotions, natural objects, symbolic images or facts. In Edgar Allen Poe’s two short stories “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Cask of Amontillado” show great representations of death by using symbolism, while in “The Tell-Tale Heart” uses the setting, title and amontillado. In the short story “The Tell-Tale Heart” the author uses the man old man’s eye as a symbol. Eye being the eye of the vulture, as you know the vulture is a bird the preys on almost dead or dead animals. The narrator in the short
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