Plot
This ails Roderick and Madeline Usher
What is a mysterious illness OR what is possibly familial incest
Roderick Usher's twin sister
Madeline Usher
The setting of the story
Poe uses this device when introducing Madeline Usher for the first - and last - time that the narrator will see her healthy
What is foreshadowing
This is the disease that killed Poe's mother, brother, and future wife
What is tuberculosis
What is Boyhood companions
The man who comes to the house of Usher to help his ailing friend
What is 1st person using I personal pronouns
This device is used when describing the house at the beginning of the story
What is personification - "vacant, eye-like windows"
These were the ages of Poe and his cousin Virginia when they married
What is 12 and 27
What Roderick and Usher do to pass the time
What is reading and painting and playing the singing guitar
The only last surviving male of the Usher family line
Roderick Usher's madness and descent into fear is an example of this type of conflict.
What is man vs self
This device is used to emphasize to the reader that Roderick Usher is going crazy towards the end of the story
What is repetition, "Long - long - many minutes, many hours, many days have I heard it!"
This was how much money Poe made off of his first famous story, "The Raven"
What is $14, or about $400 our time
Roderick Usher does this when he hears the sounds towards the end of the story
What is Ethelred
This is an example of a symbol within the story
What is the house representing the family or the family representing the house
This device was used when the narrator said Usher had a "cadaverousness of complexion"
What is metaphor, comparing him to the dead, or what is hyperbole
This was how Poe memorialized his wife when she died
What is writing a poem called "Annabel Lee"
This character's actions correspond to the reading of the story towards the end of the novel
The author of the story "The Mad Trist"
What is Sir Launcelot Canning
This is a theme within the story (no "incest is bad" answers accepted)
What is death, family, fear, darkness, friendship
These are the three most alluded to bodies of work of all time (must have all three answers in the correct order)
What is the Bible, Shakespeare, and Greek Mythology
Poe's mysterious and untimely death in 1849 took place in this city
What is Baltimore, Maryland