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Author Background
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What is tone?
Tone is how the author feels about the story.
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What is the tone of the story?
Deliberate, authorial
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Who is the author of The Fall of the House of Usher?
Edgar Allen Poe
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What is the title?
The Fall of the House of Usher
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Who is Ms. Murtha's boyfriend?
Andrew
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Give an example repetition
The repetition of upon
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Why did Roderick want his friend to come to the house?
Roderick was getting ill
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How did he get kicked out of the army(West Point)?
He skipped classes
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Characters of the story
Roderick Usher, Madeline Usher, Unnamed narrator
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What is the setting of the story?
Mysterious, haunted house, stormy and dark nights, spooky
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What is the definition of alliteration?
Repeating the same letter or sound
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How old was his first wife?
13
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What is the purpose of "The Fall of the House of Usher"
lonliness
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How many students are at Xavier?
727 students (according to the website) might be different
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What is does the story mean by that the family past generations continued with out any outside source?
Incenst
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Tell us the basic plot of the story
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What occupation did his biological parents have?
Actors
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Describe the House of Usher
Crack in the house in a zigzag line, antique, old, gothic like, dilapidated, haunted
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Where does Andrew work?
Quaker Oats
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What is the theme of the story?
Loneliness, isolation, fear, family
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What is the symbol of the title of the story?
It Symbolizes the fall of the family of Usher. The end to the family.
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How did Poe die?
It is a mystery to why Poe died
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Tell us about Madeline. What happened to her?
Twin sister of Roderick. Illness that can't be figured out. Buried alive by her brother
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What are the hours for the LMC during finals week?
7am to 7pm