"Fall of the House of Usher"
This 19th century author wrote complex tales which focused on the spookier elements of literature
Edgar Allan Poe
A stranger gives this reason for wanting to visit the family’s home
his childhood home
The narrator is mourning this individual
Lenore
Connects a noun or pronoun to another word in the sentence
Preoposition
a single independent clause
Simple
The name of the ailing childhood friend the speaker of the story goes to visit in the middle of the rural woods.
Roderick Usher
The stranger begs to remain here while the family eats their dinner
the basement
The Raven keeps repeating this line to the narrator.
Nevermore
This what you call the noun, noun phrase, or pronoun that almost always follows a preposition
Object or object of the preposition
two or more independent clauses, joined either by a comma and a coordinating conjunction or by a semicolon
compound sentence
Usher digs his own grave when he admits to doing this to the living Lady Madeline at the end of the story.
Burying her alive.
The stranger’s room now belongs to…
the son
This Greek god is referenced in the phrase, “on the Night’s Plutonian Shore” (must include what the god is in charge of)
Hades god of the underworld
A prepositional phrase must contain these two things.
A preposition and object of the preposition
one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses
complex
Name four elements of Gothic Literature
bleak setting, gloomy mood, dramatic description, tortured characters, strange or violent plot, recurring symbolism
One of these things happen in the kitchen once the stranger departs
the lights dim, there is a smell of sourish smoke, or the doorframe recedes an inch or two
The Raven perches and never moves from a bust of this Greek persona
Who is Pallas
Look at the sentence below, identify the preposition and the object of the preposition
I hurried toward the door
Preposition: toward
Object: Door
two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses
compound- complex