Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 "I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's": Poe's Stylistic Versatility -- 2 Frantic Forensic Oratory and the Rhetoric of Self-Deceit: "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Black Cat" -- 3 Allegoria, Chronographia, and Clock Architecture in "The Masque of the Red Death" -- 4 Poe's Linguistic Comedy -- 5 The Linguistic Weaponry of the "Tomahawk Man": Poe's Critical Reviews -- Catalogue of Rhetorical and Other Literary Terms in Poe's Works -- The Terms by Type -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Stauffer on Poe's "Five Styles" -- Appendix 2: Paranoid Schizophrenia in "The Tell-Tale Heart" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.