Story Elements
Target Words
Words to Know
Fall of House of Usher
The Haunted House
100
When and where in a story
What is the setting?
100
a strong feeling of worry
What is "anxiety"?
100
an underground chamber
What is "vault"?
100
the setting for this story
What is Usher's house?
100
when two words have the same ending sounds
What is "rhyme"?
200
A lesson the author wants the reader to know
What is the theme of a story?
200
all family members of the same age
What is "generation"?
200
shaking
What is "quivering"?
200
the mood for this story
What is dark, depressing, eerie, gloomy, etc.?
200
a group of lines about a topic in a poem
What is a stanza?
300
Examples are protagonists and antagonists
What are the characters in a story?
300
a great unhappiness
What is "despair"?
300
sorrowful
What is "melancholy"?
300
character traits for the narrator at the beginning of the story
What is "a good friend", "loyal", "anxious", or "nervous"?
300
the main character in this poem
Who are the ghosts?
400
the sequence of events in a story
What is the plot?
400
synonym of peculiar and strange
What is "bizarre"?
400
antonym of full
What is "vacant"?
400
character traits for the narrator at the end of the story
What is "anxious", "terrified", or "afraid"?
400
the mood for this poem
What is dark, depressing, eerie, gloomy, etc.?
500
The feeling an author creates
What is mood?
500
antonym of staying silent
What is "utter"?
500
synonym of depressing
What is "sombrous"?
500
"Isolating yourself from the world can make you insane"
What is one of the themes from "Fall of the House of Usher"?
500
the meaning of this sentence: "so shun this place where specters soar"
What is "stay away from this place where ghosts fly"?
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