Short Story Analysis 1

1- During the whole of a dull, dark, and __Soundless__ day.
2- Poe uses several similes comparing Usher to what kind of addict? A opium eater. also alcoholic
3- “We painted and read”… to the wild improvisation of what
instrument?  Speaking guitar
4- The windows are described as __eye-like___.
5- The atmosphere is __dark, glommy?__.
6- This is a story of a man who is ___insane,crazy , psychotic out of touch with the world__.
7- What is the family’s relationship with the world? They are isolated from the outside world
8- For Roderick, what is worse than what you actually fear? Fear itself
9- What disorder could be present? Psychosis.
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Roderick paints an underground__crypt,vault__.
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A fissure is a __a narrow opening or crack of considerable length and depth usually occurring from some breaking or parting___.
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What does Roderick tell the narrator about his sister? That her decease would leave Roderick the last of the ushers.
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Where do Roderick and the narrator put Madeline? In a underground vault/crypt.
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What does the narrator discover about Roderick and
Madeline? They are siblings
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What do Roderick and the narrator do when they can’t
sleep? They read the Mad Trist
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What happens to the House of Usher? Its collapse in on itself being completely destroyed.
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What is wrong with Roderick? He is insane and sick.
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For what is the Usher family famous? For a peculiar sensibility of temperament as well as a passionate devotion to the intricacies.
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What is catalepsy?A condition of suspended animation and loss of voluntary motion in which the limbs remain in whatever position they are placed.
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What does Roderick believe about his house?  That its haunted and out to get him