After reading “The Black Cat” and poems by Edgar Allan Poe, write an essay in which you compare “The Black Cat” with one of the poems and analyze how Poe uses diction to develop the tone in each of the texts. Support your discussion with evidence from the text.
Poe uses descriptions of the stillness of the city to develop a lonesome tone of “The City and the Sea” and he uses the narrator’s responses to his sins to create a tone of shame and guilt in “The Black Cat”
Poe uses descriptions of the stillness of the city to develop a lonesome tone of “The City and the Sea” and he uses the narrator’s responses to his sins to create a tone of shame and guilt in “The Black Cat”