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Fear In Edgar Allen Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart

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Often people respond to fear by trying to assure oneself it is not happening. Authors often try to show fear in a story so that readers can relate to character on a more personal level, and this can give the reader a better understanding of the story. From Edgar Allen Poe’s The “Tell-Tale Heart,” the man is trying to convince his fears that he is hearing bugs and that it is not something that is bigger and more frightful. In the story, Poe shows many types of fear, and he shows these fears through diction and literary devices when reading the story the reader can tell the elderly man is terrified by Poe’s way of writing and describing how the man acts when hearing the noise. Edgar Allen Poe represented fears very well, he gave his readers a
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