Why, Mary, are you just arriving for your elocution class?

Did you suggest to Mrs. Rudecki that she give Lorraine elocution lessons?

Poe originally wrote the poem as an elocution piece and, as such, the poem is known for its focus on sound.

His family was long associated with the teaching of elocution his grandfather, Alexander Bell, in London, his uncle in Dublin, and his father, in Edinburgh, were all elocutionists.