What literary elements are in Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado"?

In his
essay, "," Poe states that he starts not with a plot but with a mood or "an
effect" he wants to impress on the reader. Poe wishes to convey a mood of growing
foreboding and horror in this story of a man walled up to die in a catacomb as revenge for
undefined insults.

One way Poe creates this mood is through the use of the
literary device of , which is description using the fives senses of sight, sound, touch, taste,
and smell.The visual description of the catacombs is one of increasing claustrophobia and dark
horror that contrasts with sepulchral whiteness. Corridors are lit by a flaming torch Montresor
carries that shows

the white webwork which gleams from
these cavern walls

The two men pass piles of human bones
and pass under a "low arch" into a "deep crypt." Montresor wears a black
mask that hides his face.

But Poe does not only use visual effects. Sound
was important to him, and he adds to the growing sense of terror through the use of
screams...