Every Night At Midnight Figurative Language

In this nail biting, thrilling, story by poet Edgar Allan Poe, one of his most famous writing. This story gains intensity by the unique choice of words and figurative language. The story begins with the narrator admitting that he was nervous. He states throughout the poem that “he is not mad”, but he is very mad as well as terrified to the fact that he hears the heart beats of the murdered man. His over-sensitivity in this story is the cause of his obsession with the old man’s eye. It was something about that eye that caused him to murder the old man. Everynight at midnight, he would go to the room where the old man’s body was located and would quietly poke his head through the door to look at the old man. He peeked through every night for
eight nights to watch the old man. On the eighth night, he decided to finally commit the deed. He murdered the man on the eighth, in a small bedroom which was pitch dark. When he saw the man’s vulture eye it caused him to murder the innocent old man. The moans of the old man heightened the terror of the story. His moans were “low stifled sounds that arose from the bottom of the room.