Inside the Usher House (Events)
The narrator visits the Usher for this reason.
(List the reason and how)
What is visits Roderick because his old friend sends him a letter asking to help him with his illnesses?
This was a supernatural or unexplained event that took place in the story.
(Choose 1 out of 3)
What is:
1. Madeline's apparent returning from the grade
2. Strange noises from the tomb
3. The house collapsing
These siblings are the main two residents of the Usher house.
Who are Roderick and Madeline Usher?
This is the next thing that happens to Madeline after she dies.
What is Roderick preserves her body in the family vault?
The word melancholy denotes _____________________.
What is a deep sadness?
This is the strange illness that Madeline has.
What is Catalepsy? (the illness where one has no control over their limbs)
This is a key element of Gothic Literature throughout the story.
What is madness?
This is the revealed relationship between Madeline and Roderick.
What is they are twin siblings?
*Double Jeopardy*
The crack in the mansion symbolizes this.
What is the collapse of the Usher house and family?
This is the feeling that the word "decay" connotes.
What is negative (rotten, death, etc.)?
This is what happens after the narrator started reading to Roderick the night of the storm.
What is he hears strange sounds (similar from the story his is reading) echoing through the house?
This is how Roderick feels about the Usher house.
What is scared (something lurking within the house)?
What is he doesn't have a name (unnamed)?
This is the strange phenomena that the narrator speculates with Madeline's body.
What is she still had color in her skin (rosy cheeks and bosom)?
This is the feeling that the word "terror" brings.
What is negative feeling (dread, horror, etc.)
This is what happens when Madeline returns from the tomb.
The storm, howling winds, and strange lights intensifies this Gothic Element and mirrors Roderick's unraveling mind.
(Think of a scary movie)
What is tension or suspense?
This is the main motive for the narrator when things become supernatural within the house.
What is he wants to help/support his friend?
This is the author of the story "The Fall of the House of Usher", considered to be one of the founding members of Gothic Literature.
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
The long, narrow crack on the Usher house is the definition for this word.
What is fissure?
This is the reason that Madeline and Roderick are the last of the Usher family.
What is because of incest throughout the family, causing only one member to survive per generation?
*Double Jeopardy*
This is the type of conflict that Roderick has within the story.
What is inner conflict?
Theses are the three things that our narrator does to help Roderick feel better.
What are:
1. paints with Roderick
2. listen to Roderick play his guitar
3. reads to Roderick?
This is the reason why the narrator would be deemed as "unreliable".
(1/3 reasons)
What is:
1. He never admits what truly happens
2. He is infected by Roderick's madness
3. His judgement is clouded in need to help his friend
The word "dissolution" means __________________________.
What is "Ending or Downfall"?