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The Fall of The House of Usher Questions

The summary analyzes a passage from Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Fall of the House of Usher" between pages 13 to 17. It discusses Madeline Usher being buried in the family vault located in an isolated area on the estate. The passage foreshadows her premature burial and describes the deteriorating condition of Roderick and Madeline Usher which symbolizes the decline of the Usher lineage.

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The Fall of The House of Usher Questions

The summary analyzes a passage from Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Fall of the House of Usher" between pages 13 to 17. It discusses Madeline Usher being buried in the family vault located in an isolated area on the estate. The passage foreshadows her premature burial and describes the deteriorating condition of Roderick and Madeline Usher which symbolizes the decline of the Usher lineage.

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The fall of the house of Usher

Pp 13 to 17

Read the text, listen to the audio and answer the


following questions:
1) Upon her death, where is Madeline put? Where is it
located?
2) What detail serves as foreshadowing when they bury
the lady Madeline?
3) What does the narrator learn about Roderick and
Madeline and what could it symbolise?
4) How do the weather and the sounds of the old
house contribute to create a feeling of terror in the
reader during the last night in the story?
5) How does the parallelism between the events in the
story the narrator reads to Usher and the ones in the
story help create rising tension and lead to the
climax?
6) When Roderick Usher screams “Madman!”, who is
he talking about? Why?
7) What is the meaning of the end? What events or
elements in the story foreshadow the ending?

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