Vocabulary
What is a common word meaning temporary stay, like the narrators visit?
Sojourn
The house belongs to what family
the usher family
The first thing the narrator observes about the house is its sense of what?
Gloom or decay
Who is the master of the house and the narrators friend?
Roderick usher
The house's condition reflects the decay of this entire group of people?
The usher family line
The word for a long, narrow crack or split, like the one seen on the exterior of the mansion
A fissure
What body of water reflects the house?
A tarn
What did the narrator and Roderick do with madeleines body after she supposedly died?
They temporarily entombed her
who is Roderick's sister
Madeline usher
The crack on the house symbolizes the fractured nature of the family line and this characters mind?
Roderick
This adjective describes the atmosphere of the house, meaning grave or gloomy.
Sombre
What is the general mood or feeling of the house's interior
oppressive or claustrophobic
What natural event happened as Madeline rose from her tomb
A violent storm
What professional person does Roderick mention dismissing?
The physican
The entire mood of sorrow and decay is an example of the Gothic focus on what central them?
The term for a medical condition involving a trance or seizure, marked by a loss of control over the limbs, which Madeline is affected with
Catalepsy
What agricultural style us used to describes the hallway?
Gothic
What key relationship realization did the narrator have about Roderick and Madeline in the vault
They were twins
What type of relatives are Madeline and Roderick
Twins
What are the two symbolic meaning of the title, "The Fall of the House of Usher"?
The house collapsing and the family line ending
This word, related to gloom or sadness, describes the overall feeling of the narrator upon first approaching the House of Usher.
insufferable doom
The narrator notice unnatural, gaseous light on the house, described by what specific adjective
unearthly
What actions simultaneously end the story?
Madeline attacks Roderick and the house collapses
The narrator is unnamed emphasizing his role as what?
an observer
The "House" also symbolizes the disastrous fate of a family defined by this practice
incest