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In, “The Minister’s Black Veil,” Nathaniel Hawthorne uses literary devices such as symbolism and diction to depict that secret sin and guilt can affect people’s mental state greatly.

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In Saki's "The Open Window" there is symbolism and irony to display the theme of deceit.

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In "To Build a Fire", repetition, imagery, and foreshadowing help build the theme of man having to battle nature.

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In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Charlotte Perkins Gilman displays personification and symbolism to say that the mind can play tricks.

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In "Miss Brill", Katherine Mansfield uses personification, imagery, and similes to explain how painful loneliness can be.

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Throughout O' Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard To Find", Connor brings to service the use of allusions and irony to illustrate that some live their lives under the false illusion that they are good when in reality they are prejudiced at heart.

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Through the use of allusions and foreshadowing, Edgar Allen Poe is able to convey the theme that death is inescapable in his short story "The Masque of Red Death."

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What forms of symbolism does Allen Poe use in the story and how does he make the stories tone so unsettling?

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Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Fall of the House of Usher” employs plentiful imagery and allusion to exemplify the theme of menial days before utter horror. 

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In "The Gift of the Magi," O'Henry uses imagery, irony, and allusions to show that love and sacrifice conquers most everything else

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Edgar Allen Poe utilizes the literary devices of imagery, similes, metaphors, and personification to exemplify the theme in his eerie short story, “The Fall of The House of Usher” of inevitable madness.

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In “The Masque of the Red Death”, Edgar Allan Poe uses allusions, metaphors, and imagery to describe the theme of death cannot be escaped.

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In the story, "Thank You, Ma'am", Langston Hughes uses alliteration, repetition, and symbolism to demonstrate what it is like to be given a second chance.

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In the short story, “Everyday Use”, Alice Walker uses metaphors, visual imagery, and symbolism to describe the importance of a true family heritage.

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In Ambrose Bierce's short story, "An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge", he utilizes literary devices such as foreshadowing, symbolism, and point of view in order to convey about the brutality of warfare.

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Katherine Mansfield utilizes similes and personification in her short story "Miss Brill" to demonstrate that our inner selves are the toughest battles to overcome.

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Frank O’Connor’s short story Guest of the Nation he uses metaphors and symbolism to convey the theme of doing  what you think is right despite what others want; This is seen when Bonaparte participates in the execution and says he’ll never feel the same.

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Frank O’Connor’s short story Guest of the Nation he uses metaphors and symbolism to convey the theme of doing  what you think is right despite what others want; This is seen when Bonaparte participates in the execution and says he’ll never feel the same.

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In the short story, "Japanese Quince", John Galsworthy employs irony, imagery, symbolism, and personification to show that there's people that get introduced to new styles in life but are afraid to change because of what could happen in the future.

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In the short story, “ The Monkey’s Paw”, W. W. Jacobs employs metaphors, imagery, and foreshadowing to express the importance of caution by emphasizing on no matter how good a person’s intentions may be there will always be unintentional consequences that follow it.

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In the short story, "The Sniper", Liam O'Flaherty employs personification, simile, anaphora, and metaphor to portray that conflict and war between factions divides all of humanity, regardless of other ties or bonds between each other.

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In the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game,” Richard Connell employs simile, metaphor, and personification to assert the notion of survival of the fittest can lead humans to become more like animals than civilized people.

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In the short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find", Flannery O'Connor uses similes, metaphors, flashbacks, and repetition to help demonstrate how there are not very many good people left in the world.

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In the short story, "A Worn Path", Eudora Welty utilizes imagery, similes, metaphors, personification, and symbols to demonstrate how persistence and endurance will pay off in life and can get people through any of life's challenges.

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In his short story “The Tell-Tale Heart,” Edgar Allan Poe utilizes repetition, hyperbole, and amplification to show and explain the narrator’s madness and his thought process before, during and after killing the old man.