"The Fall of the House of Usher"

How do you properly cite the title of the text?

• the fall of the house of usher

• The Fall of the House of Usher

• "The Fall OF The House OF Usher"

• "The Fall of the House of Usher"

Who is the author of "The Fall of the House of Usher"?

• Stephen King

• Julio Cortázar

• Edgar Allan Poe

• Sparky Sweets

Which of the following is NOT an element of Gothic literature?

• Always sunny weather

• Old spacious house or castle

• Supernatural or unknown forces

• Isolation and imprisonment

Which of the following contains the Gothic literature element of a damsel in distress (a woman who is suffering from imprisonment or sickness)?

• "During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback" (par.1)

• "The disease of the lady Madeline had long baffled the skill of her physicians." (par.14)

• "An irrepressible tremor gradually pervaded my frame; and, at length, there sat upon my very heart an incubus of utterly causeless alarm." (par.31)

• "While I gazed, this fissure rapidly widened—there came a fierce breath of whirlwind—the entire orb of the satellite burst at once upon my sight" (par.48)

Which of the following contains the element of madness and mental anguish (negative thoughts that stress a person out)?

• "The writer spoke of acute bodily illness—of a mental disorder which oppressed him—and of an earnest desire to see me, as his best and indeed his only personal friend..." (par.2)

• "The room in which I found myself was very large and lofty. The windows were long, narrow, and pointed..." (par. 6)

• "At the request of Usher, I personally aided him in the arrangements for the temporary entombment. The body having been encoffined, we two alone bore it to its rest." (par.28)

• "As if a shield of brass had indeed, at the moment, fallen heavily upon a floor of silver—I became aware of a distinct, hollow, metallic, and clangorous, yet apparently muffled, reverberation" (par.45)

Which of the following is a mastery-level FATt Statement that contains all four parts?

• In "the fall of the house of usher" Edgar Allan Poe uses a lot of examples of gothic literature.

• Edgar Allan Poe's short story contains many elements of Gothic literature.

• The short story "The Fall Of The House Of Usher" is a classic example of gothic Literature.

• "The Fall of the House of Usher", a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, contains many elements of Gothic literature, making it a classic example of the genre.

Which of the following is NOT a Claim that responds to the prompt, "How is "The Fall of the House of Usher" an example of Gothic literature?"?

• This quote shows that supernatural things were happening around the house.

• One example found in the text is the element of the old spooky house or castle.

• For instance, the element of environmental decay can be found toward the beginning of the text.

• Poe uses the element of isolation and imprisonment to show what happens to the characters in the story.

Which of the following correctly shows how to cite a direct quote from the text as Evidence?

• We have put her living in the tomb! par.46

• "We have put her living in the tomb!" par.46

• We have put her living in the tomb! (par.46)

• "We have put her living in the tomb!" (par.46)

Which of the following sentence starters would you use to provide Reasoning that connects the Evidence to the Claim?

• For example, ...

• The narrator states...

• This shows how...

• I was surprised by...

Which of the following statements provides the strongest Reasoning for this Claim and Evidence?

One element found in the text is the idea of supernatural and unknown forces. The narrator states, "But the under surfaces of the huge masses of agitated vapor, as well as all terrestrial objects immediately around us, were glowing in the unnatural light of a faintly luminous and distinctly visible gaseous exhalation which hung about and enshrouded the mansion" (par.34)

• This shows how awful the weather was from the beginning of the story, since there was a weird fog around the whole house.

• The narrator describes the fog around the house as "unnatural", suggesting that this strange weather might be coming from a supernatural or unknown force.

• Usher was experiencing a lot of madness and mental anguish from the weather happening outside the mansion.

• With Roderick and Madeline being the last of the Usher line, the House of Usher would be isolated from the rest of the world in the fog.