Fall of the house of usher

Question 1

Examples of doubling (6)

Answer 1

• house reflected in lake
• roderick’s paintings pf the vault
  -twins
  -madeline’s phys. degradation and roderick’s mental degrad. (completion)
  -roderick’s mental state reflected in the storm
• Mad Trist

Question 2

Son coeur est un luth suspendu. QU’on le touche il résonne.

Explain.
Explain «son».

Answer 2

They’re both exposed to an external force (incest)

Son could be either twin, but likely both. Not gender-specific.

Question 3

oppresively

Answer 3

in an unbearable way

Question 4

singularly

Answer 4

unique, peculiar, odd

Question 5

Insufferable

Answer 5

extremely annoying, unpleasant, and difficult to bear

Question 6

pervade

Answer 6

to spread through and be easy to notice in every part of smt

saturate

Question 7

sublime

Answer 7

spiritual excellence, beauty, awe-inspiring

Question 8

goading

Answer 8

encouragement

Question 9

insoluble

Answer 9

enigmatic, that cannot be solved or explained

Question 10

tarn

Answer 10

lake

Question 11

redeemed

Answer 11

justifiable

Question 12

fancies

Answer 12

imaginative ideas

Question 13

How is Usher a gothic story (4)

Answer 13

-dreary tone,
-fear sets into narrator from start,
-archaic words/phrases,
-amplified focus on exposition/environment

Question 14

Archaic phrasing=

Answer 14

-lengthy sentences w embedded clauses (relative)
-pathetic fallacy

Question 15

Pathetic fallacy=

Answer 15

the way the narrator feels is transposed in the environment

Question 16

«I reflected … to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression»

Answer 16

Narrator’s discomfort is not the place itself, but the way things in it are arranged.

environment influences emotion

Question 17

alleviation=

Answer 17

assuagement, relief, lessening

Question 18

munificent=

Answer 18

generous

Question 19

sojourn=

Answer 19

short stay, visit

Question 20

temperament =

Answer 20

personality

Question 21

orthodox=

Answer 21

conventional

Question 22

infortunate=

Answer 22

demanding, persistent

Question 23

fallacy=

Answer 23

false or illogical

Question 24

pathetic=

Answer 24

has to do w emotions

Question 25

time out of mind=

Answer 25

too long ago to be remembered

Question 26

Explain the Usher family

Answer 26

- patrons of the arts - the family is dying out (incest, inbreeding)

Question 27

equivocal=

Answer 27

ambiguous

Question 28

fancy =

Answer 28

dream, daydream, idea

Question 29

Explain: «an atmosphere which had no affinity with the air of heaven»

Answer 29

hellish, bad, evil

Question 30

countenance =

Answer 30

expression

Question 31

scanned, scrutinized =

Answer 31

inspect with care

Question 32

phantasmoagoric =

Answer 32

dreamlike, hallucinatory

Question 33

delapidation=

Answer 33

desrepair, decrepitude

Question 34

fissure =

Answer 34

fracture, crack

Question 35

«perhaps the eye of a scrutinizing observer might have discovered a barely perceptible fissure»

Answer 35

is it there of metaphoric

Question 36

What is familiar from when he visited as a child (4) and what is different

Answer 36

Same : carvings on the walls, sobre tapestries, ebony blackness of the floor, armorial trophies Different: his mental state and the images these sights conjure

Question 37

lofty -

Answer 37

noble

Question 38

encrimsoned =

Answer 38

dyed crimson

Question 39

feeble =

Answer 39

very weak

Question 40

profuse =

Answer 40

abundant

Question 41

cordiality =

Answer 41

pleasant and cordial

Question 42

wan =

Answer 42

looking pale and weak, sickly

Question 43

to have a want=

Answer 43

a lack of something

Question 44

wont =

Answer 44

accustomed

Question 45

Arabesque =

Answer 45

a type of designed where lines are intertwined, intricate

Question 46

what does arabesque mean in the context of the story

Answer 46

his facial expression is confusing and hard to decipher, paradoxical, ornamental

Question 47

companion =

Answer 47

close friend

Question 48

forthwith =

Answer 48

right away

Question 49

unobstrusive =

Answer 49

modest

Question 50

appellation =

Answer 50

name

Question 51

eaves =

Answer 51

part of the roof

Question 52

masonry =

Answer 52

stonework

Question 53

mingled =

Answer 53

mixed

Question 54

trellised =

Answer 54

criss-crossed metal

Question 55

pallide =

Answer 55

white, ashen

Question 56

tenuinty =

Answer 56

slenderness

Question 57

inordinate =

Answer 57

excessive

Question 58

pallor =

Answer 58

shade of colour

Question 59

tremulous =

Answer 59

shaky from nerves or anxiety

Question 60

insipid =

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lacking in distinguishable quality, having no taste or flavour

Question 61

palpable =

Answer 61

that is easily noticeable by the mind or senses

Question 62

guttural =

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throaty, raspy

Question 63

Explain Usher's illness

Answer 63

hypersensitivity (Poe trope where the senses are hightened)

Question 64

folly =

Answer 64

madness

Question 65

What is Usher afraid of

Answer 65

he knows death is looming. he isn't afraid of being dead, but of the moment of fear right before death.

Question 66

What are Usher's theories abt the source of his ilness (2)

Answer 66

1. His sister's ilness is taking a toll on him ( if she dies he becomes the last Usher) 2. The mansion and its surroundings have an effect on his morale. As if they were sentient.

Question 67

suppositious =

Answer 67

not genuine

Question 68

sufferance =

Answer 68

tolerance

Question 69

What does the storm represent

Answer 69

it represents the mental turmoil that Roderick is going through (DOUBLING)

Question 70

phenomenon not uncommon is an example of

Answer 70

double negative

Question 71

Trist =

Answer 71

illicit, romantic rendez-vous

Question 72

casements =

Answer 72

window panes

Question 73

uncouth =

Answer 73

uncivilized

Question 74

prolixity =

Answer 74

wordiness

Question 75

doughty =

Answer 75

spirited, tough

Question 76

withal =

Answer 76

in addition

Question 77

gauntlet =

Answer 77

glove

Question 78

protracted =

Answer 78

prolonged, drawn out

Question 79

What does Roderick die from

Answer 79

the fear he anticipated

Question 80

What do double negatives do in Usher

Answer 80

characteristic of gothic litt. adds emphasis

Question 81

prostrating =

Answer 81

praying to a ruler, falling to your knees, flattening you bc of weakness

Question 82

Explain the comparison between Fuseli and Usher

Answer 82

fuseli is abstract and usher isn't

Question 83

educe =

Answer 83

conclude based on facts

Question 84

cataleptical =

Answer 84

very rigid arms, body in general

Question 85

why did usher entomb her sister temporarily in a vault

Answer 85

doesn't trust the doctor's motives, the burial ground is exposed. they might desecrate the body or do an autopsy since her ilness is so rare.

Question 86

pertinacity =

Answer 86

persistence, stubornness

Question 87

fortnight =

Answer 87

two weeks

Question 88

worldly =

Answer 88

sophisticated

Question 89

«sympathies of a scarcely intelligible nature had always existed between them»

Answer 89

incest

Question 90

«I felt creeping upon me, by slow yet certain degrees, the wild influences of his own fantastic, yet impressive influences.»

Answer 90

Usher insanity is starting to affect the narrator

Question 91

tenant =

Answer 91

a person who pays rent

Question 92

to rear (rhapsody) =

Answer 92

to rise up and show its head

Question 93

«in the monrach Thought's dominion»

Answer 93

Thought = name of the ruler, representing clear thinking, sanity, moral judgement

Question 94

«Seraph spread a pinion»

Answer 94

seraph = angel pinion = wing

Question 95

«Over fabric half so fair»

Answer 95

The angel spread a wing over the domain

Question 96

«Banners yellow, glorious, golden, On its roof did float and flow»

Answer 96

Hair

Question 97

«two luminous windows saw»

Answer 97

eyes

Question 98

«pearl and ruby glowing»

Answer 98

teeth and tongue»

Question 99

porphyrogene =

Answer 99

a royal name, purple in ancient greek, colour reserved for royalty

Question 100

sedges

Answer 100

small plants