Across
- 1. The Usher race ends when the house _____ in on Madeline Usher.
- 5. When the narrator mentions the house has "vacant and eye-like windows," he is utilizing ___.
- 10. Roderick unknowingly buried his sister alive due to her episode of being in a ____ from her condition.
- 11. The narrator feels _____ when arriving at the Usher house.
- 13. The house symbolizes the Usher ____.
- 15. Literary device that explains how something within a story or event happens differently than expected.
- 16. "Mad Trist" is a ____ _____ of "The Fall of the House of Usher."
- 17. Roderick suffers from a ___ illness.
- 18. The part of the story with the most tension.
- 19. The narrator feels like the house could be ____ him or something else in the house.
- 20. What is the name of the sister in the story?
- 25. Poe uses lots of ____ to create the mood of "The Fall of the House of Usher."
- 27. The narrator is symbolized as _____ in the story "Mad Trist."
- 29. What kind of mood does Poe create throughout the story?
- 30. Common people refer to the actual house and the family with the ____ name.
- 32. Roderick is sensitive to what sound after burying Madeline's body in the house?
- 34. Madeline suffers from a ___ illness.
- 35. Roderick and Madeline are ____.
- 38. A fortnight is ___ weeks.
- 40. A person who believes he or she has a disease despite having been told that the individual does not have a particular disease or condition.
- 41. The ____ from the top to the bottom of the house that the narrator mentions at the beginning of the story symbolizes the fall at the end.
- 45. Roderick does from the ____ of seeing his sister alive after burying her.
- 46. When an image or event hints toward a later part of the story.
- 48. The events leading up to the exciting part of the story.
Down
- 2. Poe uses what literary device when he includes the excerpt of song before the main story starts?
- 3. The song "The Haunted Palace" that Roderick writes and sings is a symbol for the house and Roderick's ____.
- 4. What is the narrator's name?
- 6. Another word for vacant.
- 7. Another word for "sickness" the narrator frequently uses.
- 8. The part of the story after the most exciting events.
- 9. Roderick realizing that Madeline has been buried alive relates to how a lute's strings are ____.
- 10. The _____ of our main story foreshadows what will happen to the house and the family at the end of the story.
- 12. The story within a story called "Mad Trist" ____ the events that take place at the end of "The Fall of the House of Usher."
- 14. The Usher family used to be very _____ and talented.
- 15. Introduces the central conflict of the story.
- 21. A stringed instrument discussed in the excerpt of the song by De Beranger.
- 22. Muscular rigidity throughout the body and loss of sensation.
- 23. Roderick is ___ to many things such as touch, smell, taste, sound, and sight.
- 24. The conclusion of the story where most questions are answered.
- 26. The setting of the story.
- 28. "The Fall of the House of Usher" has many themes including the ___ of a family line and the wealth within in.
- 31. The ____ on Madeline's face while she lays in the tombs suggests she might still be alive.
- 32. Roderick is symbolized as the _____ in "Mad Trist."
- 33. A person or family who is wealthy, privileged, and could be considered nobility.
- 36. The narrator visits Roderick to ease the ____ of Roderick's mental disorder.
- 37. Madeline is symbolized as the _____ in "Mad Trist."
- 39. The ____ wants to examine Madeline's body because of the unusual illness she had.
- 42. When Roderick realizes he has likely buried Madeline alive, his mind spirals, a symbol of when a lute _____ sound from being played.
- 43. Another word for the space the narrator and Roderick bury Madeline in.
- 44. What is the name of the person the narrator visits at the House of Usher?
- 47. Roderick and Madeline inherit mental and physical health _____ from the Usher family."