STYLISTICS: AN ANALYSIS OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN THE STORY “THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER” BY EA. POE

Abstract

In the concerned paper, the researcher is going to stylistically analyze a short story by Edgar Allan Poe with the title of “The Fall of the House of Usher”. The study aims to explore the figurative language of the story and to figure out that how the inculcation of these figurative devices contribute to the main motive of the story i.e. to generate a terrible, horrible and dreadful impact in the mind of the readers. As far as the methodology is concerned, the concerned study entails descriptive qualitative methodology, which aims to describe, decode, interpret and analyze the collected data and the motive behind it, while the theoretical framework which assists the study is Laurence Perrine’s method of stylistic analysis of the figurative language. Throughout the study, the researcher intends to locate the figurative devices, out of Perrine’s three levels classification of twelve figurative devices, and how these devices have been used for creating the intended effect to which the author Edgar Allan Poe calls “The Unity Effect” or “The Philosophy of Composition” this research finds that Edger Allan Poe has used these stylistic devices in order to make the language more terrible and horrible.