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The character that was buried alive
Who is madeline
_____________ elements are often time included in gothic literature to add to the fear and uncertainty displayed.
What are supernatural?
the name of Usher's sister?
Who is Lady Madeline?
Element of the house being described: "Perhaps the eye of a scrutinizing observer might have discovered a barely perceptible fissure, which, extending from the roof of the building in front, made its way down the wall in a zigzag direction, until it became lost in the sullen waters of the tarn.”
What is a crack in the house?
a feeling of deep sadness, typically with no cause
What is Melancholy?
Location of the vault that they place madeline within?
What is directly underneath the narrators basement?
________ vs. __________ is a typical trope of gothic literature.
What is good versus evil
The narrator was invited to the house through this communication.
What is a letter?
Literary Device employed in the following: “We pored together over such works as the “Ververt et Chartreuse” of Gresset; the “Belphegor” of Machiavelli; the “Heaven and Hell” of Swedenborg; the “Subterranean Voyage of Nicholas Klimm” by Holberg; the “Chiromancy” of Robert Flud, of Jean D’Indaginé, and of De la Chambre; the “Journey into the Blue Distance” of Tieck; and the “City of the Sun” of Campanella”
What is Allusion
A temporary stay
what is a sojourn?
Fact that the narrator learns about Usher and Madeline?
They are Twins
Protaganoists of Gothic Literature are typically described as ___________.
what are anti-heros?
The name of the narrator
What is... he was never named
“Feeble gleams of encrimsoned light made their way through the trellished planes” (297). The color of the light mentioned.
What is red?
Pointless or useless?
What is futile?
Name one of the specific ailments that usher suffered
What is
- all flowers smelled horrible to him
- he could only wear clothes of a certain fabric
- he could only eat bland food
Common ailment of a narrator in gothic literature
what is psychological torment?
The type of narrator in our story?
First person unreliable narrator
I had learned, too, the very remarkable fact, that the stem of the Usher race, all time-honored as it was, had put forth, at no period, any enduring branch; in other words, that the entire family lay in the direct line of descent, and had always, with very trifling and very temporary variation, so lain." The family is not like a tree but this plant instead.
To lessen something that is bad?
What is to alleviate?
Name of the hero in the poem that the narrator read to us
Who is ethereld
Who are mary shelly and Brahm stoker
The name of the poem read to us by Usher
What is The Haunted Palace?
The three things noted as being wrong with Lady Madeline in this passage: "A settled apathy, a gradual wasting away of the person, and frequent although transient affections of a partially cataleptical character were the unusual diagnosis”
What is lack of feeling, lost weight, and passing out?
larger or more generous than is necessary?
What is munificent?