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This person is the author of Fall of the House of Usher.
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
Dark and gloomy weather/atmosphere + large and gothic style house belonging to the Usher family.
What is the setting?
Story is told in first person from the perspective of the narrator.
What is the point of view?
Destroy completely.
What is “annihilate”? (p. 14)
A well known, respected and famous family who has had a house in their family for generations.
Who is the Usher Family?
The sister of Usher.
Who is Lady madeline?
Outside was discolored, covered in fungi and spider webs, crumbling, rotted wood, a giant crack all the way down the house; Inside was dirty, messy, and books everywhere.
What was the state of the house of Usher when the narrator arrived?
His biggest fear is being scared to death.
Who is Roderick Usher?
Very great age.
What is “antiquity”? (p. 15)
A giant, dark vault that has been used to store dead bodies in the past by the family.
Where does Usher put his sister after she dies?
A cadaverousness of complexion; large luminous eyes; thin and pale lips, a hebrew nose, web and silk-like hair, a finely molded chin, and pale skin.
What does Usher look like?
Represented the beginning of the story until the end by first being small; in the end made the house fall into the tarn.
What is the fissure/crack along the house?
The realization of all the strange noises coming from the vault all along.
What is Madeline who had been breaking out of her coffin after being buried alive?
Long, narrow, crack or opening.
What is “fissure”? (p.16)
The confession Usher makes to the narrator during the final storm.
What is Usher confessing that they have to put Madeline in the vault alive?
Caused the house to fall both physically and in its name.
What is Usher and his sister being the last of their family and dying added onto the house itself falling leaving nothing of the home?
The details of the house being most significant.
What is the mansion‘s reflection in the water seeming eerie and closely dreamlike?
Early in the story the flaw in which was in the front of the mansion that the narrator remarks.
What is the narrator remarking there being a fissure in the ground all the way to the front of the house; a symbolization?
Loud, excited, and emotional.
What is “tumultuous”? (p. 30)
Decaying house with a terror and gloomy and an eerie foreboding feel. A storm being in full force, with wild winds.
What is the mood?
Muffled sounds in the background, screaming and grating of a large, heavy door, and a boom as a giant door falls to the ground.
What are the sounds the narrator hears when he is reading to Usher?
Ways in which Rodrick Usher changed since the speaker last saw him.
What is Usher roaming sickly?
The picture that catches the narrator's eye.
What is a picture of a painted vault appearing to look underground with no light source, but still having light in it?
Ending or downfall.
What is “Dissolution”? (p.19)
The poem serving as an allegory about a king who is scared of the evil threats that are being projected, threatening his palace and self.
What is the significance of Roderick’s song “The Haunted Palace”?