Story Elements
The Fall of the House of Usher Pt. I
The Fall of the House of Usher Pt. II
The Haunted House
Miscellaneous
100
When and where.
What is setting?
100
Empty.
What is vacant?
100
Strange.
What is peculiar?
100
Making you feel sad.
What is depressing?
100
To take something away.
What is remove?
200
The people in the story.
What are characters?
200
All of the people of about the same age in a family.
What is generation?
200
A strong feeling of worry.
What is anxiety?
200
A feeling of being very unhappy and having no hope.
What is despair?
200
A group of lines (mini-paragraph) about one idea or topic in a poem.
What is a stanza?
300
The sequence of events in a story.
What is the plot?
300
To speak or make a sound from your mouth.
What is utter?
300
Usher, Madeline, and the Narrator.
What are the characters in "The Fall of the House of Usher"?
300
To wait around.
What is linger?
300
Words that have similar meaning.
What is a synonym?
400
A brief work of literary fiction.
What is a short story?
400
Having to do with the mind.
What is mental?
400
Very strange.
What is bizarre?
400
Two or more words rhyme when their ending syllables have the same or similar sounds.
What is rhyme?
400
A group of words that share the same base word and have related meanings.
What is a word family?
500
An important message about life that the author wants readers to understand.
What is the theme?
500
The general feeling an author creates. The author chooses specific words or phrases to create the feeling of the literary work.
What is the mood?
500
Isolating yourself from the world can cause mental problems.
What is the theme of "Fall of the House of Usher"?
500
Both of these literary works are horror stories, take place in a haunted house, and share the same theme.
What is "The Haunted House" and "The Fall of the House of Usher"?
500
Something in the story that has meaning in itself, but also stands for something else.
What is symbol?
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