of purposes in their work. Irony, foreshadowing, and imagery are three key devices used throughout literature. “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” “The Monkey’s Paw,” and “The Cask of Amontillado,” written by Hans Christian Anderson, W. W. Jacobs, and Edgar Allan Poe respectively, each use these literary devices in order to create various effects, some similar and some different, which combine together to form detailed and interesting stories.
Anderson and Poe used irony in “The Emperor’s New Clothes”…
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