Read the excerpt from poe’s "the masque of the red death." and thus too, it happened, perhaps, that before the last echoes of the last chime had utterly sunk into silence, there were many individuals in the crowd who had found leisure to become aware of the presence of a masked figure which had arrested the attention of no single individual before. which short story element does poe reveal in the excerpt? a plot detail characters’ thoughts the theme or message setting description