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    Repositioning Black Cat Peanut Butter                   Table  of  Contents   1.INTRODUCTION  ............................................................................................................................  1   2.  UNDERSTANDING  REPOSITIONING   .......................................................................................  2   3.  PHASES  OF  BRAND  REPOSITIONING   .........

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    Have you ever had someone you could just wall up and get them out of your life? Well in "Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe the main character does just that with his friend who annoys him and gets on his nerves on a daily basis. This character takes advantage of the fact his friend is a drunk and leads him into the dark catacombs. This is how he makes his so called friend disappear. This short story gives off and creepy vibe like most of Poe’s stories do. This is basically a story about how

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    Reed Zatlow Paper #1 Draft JAN 8 2014 Use of Setting to Create Mood in Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” Known historically for his dark and ominous storytelling‚ Edgar Allen Poe offers concise‚ detailed description of his characters‚ as well as their surrounding‚ to perfectly set the mood in his famous work “The Cask of Amontillado.” During the introductory paragraph‚ the main character of the story‚ Montresor‚ describes revenge in the utmost detail against Fortunado‚ a fellow wine

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    catacombs with him to give him some feedback or advice on the cask of amontillado hat he recently purchased. Already knowing that Fortunato was a man of arrogance and overwhelming self pride‚ Montresor decides to use this to Azad 2 his advantage. He makes Fortunato eager to come taste his cask of amontillado by mentioning that he was on his way over to ask Luchesi whether he could come and give him some feed back on the new cask of amontillado that he recently purchased. Montresor knew that by saying

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    symbolism to seize his readers’ attention in almost every single one of his stories. Poe effectively uses these expressions to cause each of his readers to experience a certain emotion or feeling while reading his stories. In Poe’s story “The Black Cat”‚ right off the bat he begins intriguing his reader with suspense. He writes a first person account of how he has done something bad. As he starts to explain what he has done‚ he continuously interrupts himself to remind the reader that he was not

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    different pets‚ and was at his happiest when feeding and taking care of them. However‚ his affection for animals grew as he got older and I noticed it. We acquired birds‚ gold fish‚ a nice dog‚ rabbits‚ a small monkey‚ and a cat named Pluto. Pluto was a beautiful‚ large‚ black cat and was my husband’s favorite pet and playmate. He would follow his only caretaker around the house and would even follow him out into the streets if he was allowed. Their friendship had last a few years‚ until he unfortunately

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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.

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    The Cask of Amontillado People do unspeakable actions when blinded by revenge. “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could‚ but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge” (Poe 1). In “the Cask of Amontillado” Edgar Allan Poe expresses characterization and irony to illustrate the theme of revenge. In the beginning of the story‚ Montresor elaborates about being insulted and every time he sees Fortunato‚ he acts as if they are good friends; when in the mind of

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    than you? In “The Black Cat” Edgar Allan Poe writes a story to teach people a lesson. Poe begins the story by introducing the nameless character in his prison cell who retells his story with all the horrible sins he had committed. The nameless narrator makes horrible decisions by giving into his perverseness. Perverseness is when a person does something they know that they should not do but still do. He first gives into his perverse self and cuts Pluto’s eye out‚ his black cat. Later in the story

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    Literary Analysis of “The Black Cat” and “The Masque of the Red Death” "No pestilence had ever been so fatal‚ or so hideous. Blood was its avatar and its seal- the redness and the horror of blood" (1). Edgar Allan Poe was a master of the macabre; his very stories injecting fear into the hearts of his readers. Poe’s life was filled with tragedy‚ as several of the important women in his life‚ including his wife and daughter died at a young age. He utilized poems and books to express that tragedy.

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