Plot
"I did actually hear a low and apparently distant, but harsh protracted, and most unusual screaming or grating sound"
What is strongly dramatic descriptive language or imagery
"The storm was still abroad in all its wrath as I found myself crossing the old causeway"
What is a strong storm with rain and heavy wind
The sickness Madeline Usher has.
What is a mysterious sickness that causes stiffness and loss of consciousness
"But under the huge masses of agitated vapor...were glowing unnatural light of a faintly luminous and distinctly visible gaseous exhalation which hung about and enshrouded the mansion"
What are supernatural events in the plot
"suddenly, there shot along the path a wild light, and I turned to see whence a gleam so unusual could have issued; for the vast house and its shadows were alone behind me"
There was an unnatural light coming from the house, which is strange becuase there was no one alive.
The man who comes to the House of Usher to take care of his ailing friend
Who is the unnamed narrator
"I scanned more narrowly the real aspect of the mansion. Its principal feature seemed too be that of an excessive antiquity. Placed there in the woods [....]"
What is black or remote setting
"there was a long tumultuous shouting sound like the voice of a thousand waters-and the deep and dank tarn at my feet closed sullenly and silently over the fragments of the "House of Usher"."
There was shouting sounds as the lake opened and the house of Usher fell into the ground.
The type of metal the walls surrounding Madeline Usher's resting place are made of
What is copper
The actions of this woman correspond with the plot of the book the narrator is reading to Roderick Usher
Who is Madeline Usher
Who does the narrator run into on the stairs going up to Usher's room
Who is the family doctor
"I looked upon the scene before me-...upon the bleak walls-upon the vacant eye-like windows-upon a few rank edges-and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees"
What is a gloomy, eerie mood
"I had so worked upon my imagination as really to believe that about the whole mansion and domain there hung an atmosphere....which had no affinity with the air of heaven, but which had reeked up form the decayed trees, and the gray wall, and the silent tarn"
There was an eerie feeling around the house that did not come from heaven but from under the dead trees.
Roderick Usher does this when he hears the sounds of his sister escaping from her coffin
What is begins mumbling like a crazy person, swaying, turned and staring at the door or shouting madman
Who is the main character of the story the narrator reads to Roderick
Who is Knight Sr. Lancelot
"Sleep came not near my couch, while the hours waned and waned away. I struggled to reason off the nervousness which had dominion over me.
What is character in psychological or physical torment
"there came, indistinctly...the echo....of the very cracking and ripping sound which Sir Launcelot had so particularly described"