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Read the selection below from the short story “The Pit and the Pendulum” by Edgar Allan Poe and answer the question that follows.



Down—steadily down it crept. I took a frenzied pleasure in contrasting its downward with its lateral velocity. To the right—to the left—far and wide—with the shriek of a spirit! to my heart with the stealthy pace of the tiger! I alternately laughed and howled, as the one or the other idea grew predominant.



How does Poe create an unsettling atmosphere with stylistic devices in the passage above?