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Sometimes, an author tries to represent or introduce their own alter ego as a character in a story. They use a fictional character to express a secondary personality that they may feel they have but don't show in real life.
This statement creates mood in the excerpt: "<span>In the startled ear of night." It connotes that the setting is already dark, dim, shocking, and creepy. Poe's clever use of words and how he descriptively creates the settings of his poems makes him a classic artist of his time and through this generation as well. </span>
Run-on sentence. There needs to be a period or at least a semi-colon before "they include...."