Descriptive Details
What does the house falling at the end represent?
The Usher family is no more.
What is Usher's first name?
Roderick
How does this narrator compare to the other two Poe story narrators?
What literary device is used when the narrator says "vacant eyelike windows"?
Personification
How does the narrator know Usher?
They knew each other as boys.
What is similarly wrong with Madeline and Roderick?
They are sick in some way.
What does Roderick's rant in paragraph 47 ("Not heard it?--yes, I hear it...") reveal about what he knows?
He knows Madeline was not truly dead when they buried her.
Where was Madeline's body buried after her death?
The vault beneath the house.
How does the narrator's perspective differ from Usher's?
He's more rational with his thinking.
How does the narrator describe the house within the first paragraph? (Use at least one word used in the text!!)
Melancholy, Insufferable, Unnerving
Name at least one of the sounds that the narrator hears outside while he is reading to Usher.
Splintering wood, A scream, and a shield.
What major difference is there between the sickness of Madeline and the sickness of Roderick?
One is mainly physical and the other is mainly mental.
What does the poem represent?
It foreshadows that the House of Usher will fall.
What is the name of the story that the narrator read to Usher to calm him down?
The Mad Trist
What is something that this story's narrator only has in common with the narrator from the Oval Portrait?
They are unnamed