Analyze Poe’s Style Review your style elements chart. Then read the following passages from “The Pit and the Pendulum.” Write the name of the style element that Poe uses in each passage.“It was hope that prompted the nerve to quiver—the frame to shrink. It was hope—the hope that triumphs on the rack . . .” “The first stroke of the razor-like crescent athwart any portion of the band, would so detach it that it might be unwound from my person by means of my left hand.”