The Narrator
"the first glimpse...a sense of insufferable gloom..."
What was the narrator's first impression of the House of Usher?
A possible reason Madeline appeared dead.
What is a coma?
What is Roderick poisoned her?
The narrator describes these as vacant and eyelike.
What are the windows?
Poe's mother and wife died of this.
What is tuberculosis?
His mode of transportation to get to the Usher home.
What is a horse?
The name of her twin.
Who is Roderick Usher?
The color of the small lake that "lay by the dwelling."
What is black?
One of the two elements Poe said was required for
a short story.
What is the story could be read at one sitting?
What is that every word was important?
A boyhood activity he and Roderick Usher shared.
What is fishing?
Usher suffers from this condition which is an unreasonable fear of contracting illnesses.
What is a hypochondriac?
He saw her only once and briefly.
Who is the narrator?
The proprietor of the mansion.
Who is Roderick Usher?
The author of "Annabel Lee."
Who is Poe?
Usher knows something awful that he does not share
with the narrator for several days.
What is that his sister was buried alive?
The archway of her vault was covered in this metal.
What is copper?
"Its principal feature seemed to be that of excessive antiquity."
What is the House of Usher?
What is the mansion?
The definition of "rending."
What is a violent or forceful pulling apart of something?
Usher did this when his sister fell on him after being locked in a vault for multiple days.
What is he died?
After being buried alive and locked in a vault for multiple days, Madeline broke out and did this.
She fell on her brother and they both died.
The narrator saw this when he arrived and said it "was barely perceptible...extending from the roof...until it became lost in the sullen waters of the tarn.:
What is a fissure?
Two forms of artistic expression Usher and the narrator shared.
What are music, books, and the guitar?