Edgar Allen Poe has a very unique style of writing in many ways. Poe tends to write his stories emphasizing dramatic irony and verbal irony. He uses adjectives that have connotative meaning, this means that the image of the particular scene can vary from person to person. Dramatic irony is referred to the reader understanding something that the charter does not. Were as verbal irony is described as saying one thing and meaning another. Both …showed first 75 words of 358 total…

…showed last 75 words of 358 total…Fortunato thinks that him being trapped in a wall is a joke. Dramatic and verbal irony are key tools in making this make sense. With out these concepts the story would not flow like it does. These are two of many of the tools that Poe uses in his unique writing style. These techniques are used constantly in this story. I have only mentioned four instances when they are used in The Cask of Amontillado.