Plot
How does the narrator learn that Roderick wants him to visit the house of Usher?
A letter
What is the setting?
The house of Usher
What is the narrator's name?
Unknown/anonymous/unnamed
What is Poe's full name?
What is Edgar Allan Poe
What do we call where the story takes place?
The setting
How do Roderick and the narrator know each other?
The were childhood friends
What's the weather like outside the house on the last night of the story?
Stormy/rainy
Who suffers from a mental illness?
Roderick Usher
"The Black Cat", "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Masque of the Red Death", etc.
What do we call the sequence of events in a story?
Poe foreshadows that the sister is not dead through telling the audience what detail when the narrator looks into her coffin?
Her cheeks are blushing/red/rosy
The "house of Usher" has two meanings. What are they?
The structure (home) and the family
What is Roderick's sister's name?
Who is Madeline
What is an example of the genre of writing that Poe wrote?
Mystery, suspense, fiction, horror, poetry, criticism, detective stories, ghost stories, Gothic Literature
Clues the author gives the reader to know what will happen later in the story
Foreshadowing
This coincidence between the last night and the story the narrator is reading starts to frighten the narrator
He hears noises that match the noises in the story
Where do the narrator and Roderick temporarily place Madeline's body?
Below the house/ the dungeon
What is the specific relationship of Roderick and his sister?
They are twins
What work was Poe's "breakthrough"?
The Raven
Name 4 elements of Gothic Literature
Bleak/Remote Setting, Mental/Physical Torture, Supernatural, Violent Events, Impending Doom.
What did Roderick die of?
Fear
What happens to the house of Usher at the end of the story?
It collapses
Who is the author of the medieval book that the narrator reads to Roderick?
Sir Launcelot Canning
Poe is known as the father of the....
Detective story/Gothic Literature
What type of literary device does the cracked house in the story represent?
Symbolism