Unit Info
Wrote The Fall of the House of Usher, The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart and more...
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
To inspire
What is motivate?
Edgar Alan Poe
Amelia B. Edwards
Horace Walpole
Ann Radcliffe
Who are gothic literature writers?
19th Century; old mansion
What is the setting?
This sight made him nervous, anxious, and fearful.
What is the narrator's reaction to seeing the House of Usher?
An objective summary
What is an overview of a text that doesn't include an opinion or an analysis?
To handle or control
What is manipulate?
The writer's parents were having problems.
Why is the writer staying at her grandmother's house?
Because he received a letter from his childhood friend...
Why the Narrator goes to the House of Usher?
"...Had always been unusual..."
"...gray-white skin..."
"...eyes large and full of light..."
What is Roderick Usher's appearance when the Narrator first saw him?
A critical summary
What is an overview of a text that includes commentary or evaluation of the work?
Point of view
What is perspective?
A type of genre where characters are driven by intense emotions of love or hate or jealousy, features ghosts or monsters, and is full of darkness and light.
What is gothic literature?
Painting, reading, listening to music
What are the ways the Narrator tries to cheer up Roderick Usher?
"It was, he said, a family sickness, and one from which he could not hope to grow better — but it was, he added at once, only a nervous illness which would without doubt soon pass away..."
What was the cause of Roderick Usher's poor health, according to him?
The idea that people are drawn to things that carry an expectation of potential danger...
What is the allure of fear?
Having to do with the mind
What is psychological?
The writer felt sadness and anxiety.
What are the writer's emotions caused by her parents?
Why did the writer fall in love with gothic literature?
A song, created by Roderick Usher, that describes a king living in a palace in a green valley surrounded by smiling ghosts, who sung how wise the king was.
What is "The Haunted Palace"?
Described as Roderick Usher's horrible enemy
What is fear?
The concept of Madeline changing from a sick sister to a ghost, Roderick changing from a worried brother to one overcome with fear, the Narrator changing from a curious childhood fear to one overcome with fear, and the house changing from a mansion to collapsing into the lake...
What is transformation?
Aspect, feature, something that can be measured
What is dimension?
The writer created an explanatory text with a twist.
What is a narrative technique?
What is a narrative?
It widened causing the walls to fall apart.
What happened to the little crack in the front of the mansion?
Fear is a common emotion that may consume a person.
What is the theme of the Fall of the House of Usher?