ELA Vocab
What is the beginning of the story called?
exposition
Who is the character telling the story?
the narrator
Who lets the stranger into the house?
the mother
Comparing two things using like or as
a simile
The principal of BHS is
Mr. Smith
What is the problem in the story called?
conflict
Who are the siblings in the story?
Roderick and Madeline Usher
Why does the stranger come to the house?
He used to live there as a child.
comparing two things without like or as
metaphor
Blackman High School is in the city of
Murfreesboro
Who are the people, animals, or objects that are alive in the story?
characters
What is wrong with Usher?
He is sick.
What does the stranger show to the boy?
a math problem
giving human qualities to nonhuman things
personification
The zip code of BHS
37128
setting
By playing music and painting
Who tells the stranger to leave the house?
the father
language that is creative and gets you to image things
figurative language
BHS was founded in
2000
This is the end of the story.
resolution
What does Usher do to his sister?
He buries her alive.
What happens at the end?
The stranger leaves.
language that helps you imaging how things feel, sound, smell, taste, and look
sensory imagery or imagery
True or False - Mrs. Parris attended BHS in high school.
True