Vocabulary: Edgar Allan Poe - Short Stories

Erratically

• sound

• random

• grave

• hole in the ground

an edge tool for cutting grass

• pendulum

• slimy

• pit

• scythe

disregard

• erratically

• echo

• neglect

• gloomy

repeated sound

• grating sound

• echo

• harsh

• awakening

strange

• morbid

• awakening

• bizarre

• gloomy

State 3 words that describe the setting of the short story, "The House of Usher"

to stare

• awakening

• neglecting

• harsh

• gazed

"...much of his _____could be traced to the terrible illness of his beloved sister..."

• gloomy

• sorrow

• dreary

• morbid

"She is wasting away to skin and bones...she can hardly move...she has _____"

• bizarre

• seizures

• scythe

• sorrow

"...when I looked up again, the _____ was swinging wider and it had come closer to me!..."

• pit

• scythe

• pendulum

• razor