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'Single Effect' By Edgar Allan Poe

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Single effect gives a focused mood or feeling made by a literary work. In getting a single effect, such as horror, fear, or suspense, all elements of a work (setting, characters, and plot) contribute individually and in a combination to get the desired feeling in the reader. The single effect that Poe wishes to show in the story is fear, or terror. “…I must abandon life and reason together, in some struggle with the grim phantasm, FEAR.” (318). To unify the single effect, Poe chooses words to describe the characters, details of setting, the actions, and dialogue. All the elements of the story contribute to the "single unifying effect" of fear and terror. The descriptions of the landscape are chilling and so the reader feels the sense of gloom,
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