These characteristics that make you stop re-read or re-think about what has just happened is what makes "The Cask of Amontillado" a very strong literary piece. One of the key literary characteristics is Poe's use of language. ... In "The Cask of Amontillado" Poe uses many specific well-known features of literary fiction including leaving things up for debate, allowing the reader to fill in scenes, extensive descriptions of characters dress, emotional and physical features, as well as making the unexpected become reality. These sometimes in depth and hard to follow characteristics are wh...

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By employing the use of an omniscient and often intrusive narrator, Forster commands a narrative technique characteristic of Victorian realism; however, the interjection of free indirect discourse within the narrative shows a desire to move away from tradition, a characteristic we would associate with the emergence of modernism; therefore, we can assume that through the ambiguous nature of the narrative form, we are exposed to the authors unease with, and conflicting ideas towards the threat of modernity, not just aesthetically, but within the context of how such dramatic cultural and social u...

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The title in itself is very suggestive, for the noun "heart" is, in a literal sense, characteristic of pure or white substance, and is very distinct, and on a metaphorical level it conveys that the novel works on an emotional scale. ... From this Conrad establishes for a reader the characteristics of darkness; it is night, the unknown, the impenetrable, the primitive, and the evil. ... So, one has to expect that as well as a physical journey, an adventure, the Heart of Darkness will also be a psychological and mystical journey....

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate