The setting of the story (time and place)
What is the House of Usher, autumn time, "dull, dark, and soundless day," and a storm?
The reason the narrator decides to visit Usher.
What is a loyal friend?
The description of: decay, walls crumbling and cracked, rotting trees, moat with sluggish water
What is the outside of the house?
What ails Roderick and Madeline Usher
What is a mysterious sickness (mental illness, physical illness, caused from incest, etc.).
The last time Usher left the mansion.
What is many years ago (maybe, like, six or seven?) (Kidding, obviously).
The definition of setting
What is when and where the story takes place?
This is a symbol that acts as a physical manifestation of the dysfunctional Usher family.
What is the House of Usher?
The description of: dark, furniture in tatters, blood red draperies,
What is the inside of the house?
Isolating yourself can cause this:
What are mental problems?
Proof that the story takes place long ago
What is riding by horse, using candles instead of electricity, sending letters?
This is what ultimately causes the death of Roderick Usher (literally and figuratively).
What is FEAR and Madeline jumping him to the ground?
The narrator helping Usher with what after Madeline "dies."
What is burying her in a locked vault?