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Upon her death, where is Madeline put?
What is the vault?
Madeline's physical appearance at the end was?
What was a white robe covered in blood?
What does the narrator realize as he spends time with Usher?
What is his mind is getting worse and worse?
Why does the narrator visit The House of Usher?
What is Usher sends him a letter?
How does the narrator know Roderick Usher?
What is childhood friends?
How Usher dies
What is he was shocked to death?
Fear
Madeline falls on him Any of these work
What was the atmosphere of the vault?
What is oppressive, small, and damp?
From what condition is usher suffering?
What is mental disorder?
What does the narrator learn about Roderick and Madeline?
What is they are twins?
The phrase house of usher has two meanings
What is the the family or the mansion itself?
How does Usher think he will die?
What is of fear?
Describe the weather conditions in the middle of the night as Usher knocks on the narrators door
What is Low clouds
Stormy but no lightning or thunder
Ominous air
What does Usher say is the cause of the noise that is getting louder and louder?
What is Madeline breaking out of the vault?
What does the author note about the Usher family tree?
What is direct line of descent?
Description of the house
What is Antique
Covered in fungus
Discolored
Crack down middle
What is Usher sensitive to?
Touch, hearing, taste, smell (all senses)
What happens to the house as the narrator flees?
What is the house collapses?
Give 3 examples of Roderick’s physical appearance.
Pale, silk hair, big luminous eyes
What type of music is Usher restricted to?
What is stringed instruments? Or guitar
What does the narrator see as he approaches the mansion?
crack or fissure
The house itself is a symbol of this.
what is the Usher family or the mind?
The narrator refers to the house of Usher as the Melancholy House of Usher. Define Melancholy.
What is gloomy or depressing
This literary device is used when the house mirrors Roderick’s mental state.
What is symbolism
Roderick was filled with suspicion about this persons motives.
Who is the physician.
The first person the narrator came in contact with that was described as having a cunning face
Who is the physician.
“...as if the house itself had absorbed the gloom of the surrounding landscape.” is an example of what figurative language
What is a simile
“...vacant eye-like windows.” is an example of what figurative language
What is a Metaphor
“An atmosphere which had no affinity with the air of heaven, but which had reeked up from the decayed trees, and the gray wall, and the silent tarn—a pestilent and mystic vapor, dull, sluggish, faintly discernible, and leaden-hued.” is parallelism or symbolism.
What is parallelism
“...the black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled lustre by the dwelling...” is an example of what figurative language.
What is symbolism
The interior of the house is described as being filled with this.
What is gloom or darkness?