Alliteration In The Black Cat

“It was the cat’s voice that had screamed. The cat had made me kill my wife, and its cries had given me away. I had walled up the monster within the tomb,” quoted from Edgar Allan Poe in The Black Cat. Using literary terms is one of Edgar Allan Poe’s strong points in his writing. In The Black Cat Poe uses figurative terms, for instance foreshadowing and alliteration, in a way that helps the story to remain interesting and flow fluently. With plot being an important necessity in a story, The Black Cat has a distinct plot of events. The story begins with a man who has loved pets all his life. Leading to the conflict, the rising action begins with the man starting to drink. “Then I began drinking. Day by day, I became more moody, short tempered, …show more content…
A flashback is a device in the narrative of a motion picture or novel by which an event or scene taking place before the present time in the narrative is inserted into the chronological structure of the work. The entire story,other than the first paragraph, is a flashback. Telling about the murder and cat is a flashback. This story is taking place after the murder, fire, and cat. “I must tell my story, because tomorrow I shall die.” Being one of the starting sentences this tells the reader that the whole story is going to be about events that have already happened. In The Black Cat Poe uses figurative terms in a way that helps the story to remain interesting and flow fluently. Using examples and quotes, this essay tells of how Edgar Allan Poe wisely uses literary terms. This essay is explaining how Poe exquisitely uses alliteration, plot, and flashbacks. I recommend this story to anyone who likes gory, interesting stories. I fell in love with this story, gore and all. Being a well-written story this story can keep the reader on the edge of their seat. Strongly encouraging this book, I suggest for anyone to read