The Cask Of Thunder Foreshadowing Analysis

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In the compelling short stories, The Cask of Amontillado and The Sound of Thunder, many literary devices were used. One of which was foreshadowing. Foreshadowing is used in nearly every story to convey clues that the reader can pick up on, hinting at events that may occur later in the story. In Edgar Allen Poe's short story The Cask of Amontillado and Ray Bradbury’s The Sound of Thunder, both stories construct suspense through constant uses of foreshadowing. There are several examples in the short stories that were mentioned earlier, and will be discussed in this essay to show how foreshadowing is effectively used to create suspense. In the story, The Cask of Amontillado, Montresor devised a plan to discard his butlers from the palace. Montresor