What are five literary devices in "The Masque of the Red Death" and "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe?

Edgar Allan Poe is famous for his Gothic works containing
tales of horror, the macabre, and death. One of his most famous poems is "The Raven"
which was published in 1845. "The Masque of the Red Death" was one one Poe's seventeen
short stories- it was published in 1842.

Both the poem and
the short story contain multiple literary devices. Poe is renowned for his imagery and
voice in his writings.

In the poem "The Raven", one can
find the following literary devices:

Assonance- the
repetition of vowels sounds within a line of
poetry

Alliteration- the repetition of consonant sounds
within a line of poetry

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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered
weak and weary,

This line's
use of the "ea" sound in dreary and weary create assonance. The line also repeat es the
"w" sound in the words weak and weary. This is
alliteration.

Repetition- the use of a word, or phrase,
over and over again

Onomatopoeia- the use of a word which
represents a sound (like bang, splash, zoom)

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suddenly there came a tapping,
As of
some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
`'Tis some visitor,' I
muttered, `tapping at my chamber door
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The repetition of the words
"rapping" and "tapping" create a sort of onomatopoeic sound. By using the words over and
over, the sound can be "heard" by the reader. This is the sound, "tap" or "rap", which
one makes on a door when knocking.

Personification- the
giving of human traits or abilities to non-human, non-living
things.

Quoth
the raven, `Nevermore.'

A
raven cannot actually speak-words which man can understand- therefore, this shows
personification given the raven is speaking actual words to the speaker of the
poem.

As for "The Masque of the Red Death", there are
multiple literary devices embedded as well.

Imagery- the
use of words which appeal to one or all of the five senses (sight, touch, taste, sound,
smell)

Blood
was its Avatar and its seal -- the redness and the horror of
blood.

Here, the imagery
associated with blood covering the country appeals to sight. An active reader can
visualize blood and the covering of blood as being seen
everywhere.

Hyperbole- the use of exaggeration to evoke
feelings

In an
assembly of phantasms such as I have painted, it may well be supposed that no ordinary
appearance could have excited such
sensation.

Here, the narrator
admits that his descriptions of the scene are detailed (or exaggerated) to the point to
excite the senses, mainly fear.