when approaching the house of usher, the narrator notices that it has a ___________ running down the front of it
What is a fissure (crack)?
This is Roderick Usher's greatest fear
What is fear or dying of fear?
how does the narrator spend his time with roderick in the days after the narrator's arrival?
What is painting, reading occult books, and listening to roderick play the guitar
The narrator learned this about the Usher's family line.
What is the Usher family line practiced incest.
This is about the overthrow of "the monarch thought" by "evil things." the narrator interprets this as evidence of "the tottering of lofty reason upon her throne" that is, of his insanity.
what is Roderick's poem "The Haunted Palace"?
The collapsing mansion symbolizes this
What is the end of the Usher family?
the narrator tells us that Roderick believes in "the sentience of all vegetable things."
What is the ability to think/consciousness
the fungus ridden mansion symbolizes this
Described as "...an immensely long and rectangular vault or tunnel...below the surface of the earth. ...a flood of intense rays rolled throughout, and bathed the whole in a ghastly and inappropriate splendor."
What is Roderick's painting
The author of "The Fall of the House of Usher"
Who is Edgar Allen Poe