Stylistic Devices An Analysis Of The Black Cat By Edgar Allan Poe Published In 1845

Document from the year 2020 in the subject Didactics - English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,7, University of Osnabrück, language: English, abstract: This paper analyses the short story The Black Cat, written by Edgar Allan Poe and published in 1845. Poe was an American poet, short story writer, editor and critic whose works have influenced the American Romantic Movement. Due to his imaginative storytelling and mysterious and horrific tales, he is considered as the inventor of the modern detective fiction. The motives of mystery, death and macabre can be found in several of is well-known masterpieces, such as “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “The Black Cat”.