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    1. The document provides study guide questions for students to answer after reading Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Fall of the House of Usher". It includes 18 questions about key plot points, characters, themes, and analysis of how the story fits into the gothic genre. 2. The answer key summarizes the responses to each of the 18 questions in 1-2 sentences. It touches on topics like the narrator's visit to the gloomy house, the illness of Roderick Usher and his sister Lady Madeline, her burial in the family vault, and the story's climax when she emerges as a living corpse. 3. By addressing these plot details and genre elements, the

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    1. The document provides study guide questions for students to answer after reading Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Fall of the House of Usher". It includes 18 questions about key plot points, characters, themes, and analysis of how the story fits into the gothic genre. 2. The answer key summarizes the responses to each of the 18 questions in 1-2 sentences. It touches on topics like the narrator's visit to the gloomy house, the illness of Roderick Usher and his sister Lady Madeline, her burial in the family vault, and the story's climax when she emerges as a living corpse. 3. By addressing these plot details and genre elements, the

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    1. The document provides study guide questions for students to answer after reading Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Fall of the House of Usher". It includes 18 questions about key plot points, characters, themes, and analysis of how the story fits into the gothic genre. 2. The answer key summarizes the responses to each of the 18 questions in 1-2 sentences. It touches on topics like the narrator's visit to the gloomy house, the illness of Roderick Usher and his sister Lady Madeline, her burial in the family vault, and the story's climax when she emerges as a living corpse. 3. By addressing these plot details and genre elements, the

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    LLCE 1ère Unit: Gothic monsters Thématique 1: Imaginaires

    Axe 2: Imaginaires effrayants


    Lecture intégrale : Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of The House of Usher

    STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS / type 1 : Read the pages indicated and answer the questions on your
    own – then share inside groups, finally discuss as a class and complete your notes with more
    details :

    page 148 :
    1. In what point of view is the story written?
    2. How does the first paragraph set the tone?
    3. Describe the house of Usher.

    Page 149 (to « summons ») :


    4. Why was the narrator going to visit Roderick Usher?

    Page 151 (« upon ») to page 152 (« excitement ») :


    5. Describe Roderick Usher.

    Page 153 (« the disease » to « no more ») :


    6. What was the diagnosis of Lady Madeline's disease?
    7. What happened to Lady Madeline on the day the narrator arrived?

    Pages 155-156 :
    8. In what way(s) does "The Haunted Palace" compare to Usher's house?

    Page 157 (« when, one evening ») to page 158 (« the house »)


    9. What did Usher want to do with his twin sister's body?
    10. Describe the vault in which Madeline was placed.

    Page 159 (« it was ») to page 160 (« night together ») :


    11. What happened on the "seventh or eighth day after the placing of the Lady Madeline within
    the donjon"?
    12. For what purpose does Poe include the details about the dark night (with dense clouds
    pressing upon the turrets) and the "unnatural light" which surrounded the house?

    To page 163 (« door ») :


    13. What happened as the narrator read the story to Roderick Usher?
    14. In the third paragraph from the end of this story, Poe uses repetition again to heighten the
    fantastic effect in the story. Give some examples.

    Last 2 paragraphs page 163 :


    15. What did the living corpse of Madeline do when it came into the narrator's room?
    16. What did the narrator do?
    17. What happened to the House of Usher?

    About the whole story :


    18. Considering the setting, characters and subject matter of The Fall of the House of Usher,
    explain how it is a gothic story.
    ANSWER KEY: SHORT ANSWER STUDY QUESTIONS - The Fall of the House of Usher

    1. In what point of view is the story written? The story is written in the first person.
    2. How does the first paragraph set the tone? Words like "dull," "dark," "gloomy," and "dreary"
    give a sense of evil. The narrator is alone; that makes us think of how we would feel if we
    were alone in such a place (begins to build suspense).
    3. Describe the house of Usher. The house of Usher is an old mansion with all the gothic
    trappings. It is "melancholy," "bleak," "sorrowful," and has "vacant and eye-like windows."
    The narrator speaks about the icy feeling the house gives him.
    4. Why was the narrator going to visit Roderick Usher? Usher had written a note to his old
    schoolmate (the narrator) asking him to come because he, the narrator, had been ill of late
    and wished to have his friend's company for cheer.
    5. Describe Roderick Usher. He had "a cadaverousness of complexion; an eye large, liquid and
    luminous beyond comparison; lips somewhat thin and very pallid, . . . a finely moulded
    chin, . . . and hair of a more than web-like softness and tenuity."
    6. What was the diagnosis of Lady Madeline's disease? "A settled apathy, a gradual wasting
    away of the person, and frequent although transient affections of a partially cataleptical
    character were the unusual diagnosis."
    7. What happened to Lady Madeline on the day the narrator arrived? She "succumbed to her
    disease."
    8. In what way(s) does "The Haunted Place" compare to Usher's house? Both houses are old
    with far better (happier) days gone by. Both have come to have some "evil things" within
    their walls.
    9. What did Usher want to do with his twin sister's body? He wanted to place it in a vault
    within the house for a fortnight.
    10. Describe the vault in which Madeline was placed. It was small, damp, dark, beneath the
    narrator's room, sheathed with copper, and it had a massive iron door.
    11. What happened on the "seventh or eighth day after the placing of the Lady Madeline within
    the donjon"? The narrator felt a sense of nervousness, horror and fear.
    12. For what purpose does Poe include the details about the dark night (with dense clouds
    pressing upon the turrets) and the "unnatural light" which surrounded the house? These
    details add to the gothic atmosphere of terror and suspense.
    13. What happened as the narrator read the story to Roderick Usher? As he read, parts of the
    book seemed to become "real." He heard a cracking and ripping sound, screaming or a
    grating sound, and a ringing or metallic reverberation.
    14. In the third paragraph from the end of this story, Poe uses repetition again to heighten the
    fantastic effect in the story. Give some examples. Some examples are: Long -- long -- long --
    many minutes, many hours, many days; I dared not -- I dared not; and many, many days ago.
    See the paragraph referenced for more examples.
    15. What did the living corpse of Madeline do when it came into the narrator's room? It fell on
    Roderick.
    16. What did the narrator do? He fled!
    17. What happened to the House of Usher? It cracked and fell into pieces into the tarn.
    18. Considering the setting, characters and subject matter of The Fall of the House of Usher,
    explain how it is a gothic story. It is set in an old house (castle-like) full of rooms. It is dark
    inside with tombs beneath/within. The outdoors, when described, are dark, cloudy,
    threatening. There is a sensitive, eccentric hero. Also, there is a living corpse -- death-like in
    life and life-like in death.

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