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In the short story "The Black Cat", Edgar Allan Poe uses gruesome detail and diction to establish his rule of one effect and the death of one major character.
One of Poe's rules for 19th Century Poetry is that writing should exhibit one effect or one purpose, which is to scare the reader. Poe uses diction and detail to put disturbing images into people's head. In "The Black Cat" the narrator declines from sanity to madness. Poe uses detail to set up the situation where the narrator goes insane. On page 2 the narrator states that "[his] original soul seemed, at one, to take its flight from [his] body", due to alcohol the narrator loses all control of his body and every fiber of his soul is ripped out. This detail creates a scary effect and sets then scene of more to come. A slight wound from the narrator's cat releases "The Fury of a demon [that] instantly posses [him]", the sight of a demon is never pretty; the sight of a demon can only mean that worst things are coming. One of the......

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