Plot
Characters
True/False
Setting
Bonus
100
Where the story takes place
What is the House of Usher
100
Roderick Usher's twin sister
Who is Madeline Usher
100
"I did actually hear a low and apparently distant, but harsh protracted, and most unusual screaming or grating sound"
What is doors grating on rusty hinges
100
"The storm was still abroad in all its wrath as I found myself crossing the old causeway"
What is rain, especially blowing
100
The relation of Roderick and Madeline Usher
What are twins
200
What ails Roderick and Madeline Usher
What is a mysterious sickness
200
The narrator's boyhood friend
Who is Roderick Usher
200
"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 or otherwise inexplicable events
200
"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"
What is lights in abandoned rooms
200
The reason the narrator came to the House of Usher
What is to comfort and entertain his boyhood friend
300
The connection the narrator has to Roderick Usher
What is a boyhood friendship
300
The author of "Mad Trist"
Who is Sir Launcelot Canning
300
"I scanned more narrowly the real aspect of the mansion. Its principal feature seemed too be that of an excessive antiquity"
What is setting in a castle
300
The type of metal the door to Madeline Usher's resting place is made of
What is copper
400
The actions of this woman correspond with the plot of the book the narrator is reading to Roderick Usher
Who is Madeline Usher
400
The hero and main character of "Mad Trist"
Who is Ethelred
400
"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 the metonymy of gloom and horror
400
"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"
What is the metonymy of gloom and horror
400
The beast Ethelred battles in "Mad Trist"
What is a dragon
500
Roderick Usher does this when he hears the sounds of his sister escaping from her coffin
What is begins mumbling like a crazy person
500
The man who comes to the House of Usher to take care of his ailing friend
Who is the unnamed narrator
500
"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 an atmosphere of mystery and suspense
500
"there came, indistinctly...the echo....of the very cracking and ripping sound which Sir Launcelot had so particularly described"
What is sighs, moans, howls, eerie sounds
500
The season of the year this story took place
What is autumn
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