Edgar Allan Poe used literary devices to make the readers feel like the
setting, people and emotions in the story seem like real. 3. The
characters are described on how their characteristic changed because of
problems and how they act on it to solve the problem. 4. Poe is a
writer in the Romantic era and most of his works deal with intuition and
emotion. The subject matter of art should deal with the emotions, and
the greatest art was that which had a direct effect on the emotions. So,
the audience are expected to have an emotional connection to the
story.