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The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
Topic – Setting of a Story The setting of a story is the environment in which it takes place. The setting tells us where and when the story takes place, sets the mood for the story, and helps the reader to create a “movie” in their head while they read. Setting: the location or time…
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The Fall of the House of Usher Text Excerpt
“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, through a singularly dreary tract of country, and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know…
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The Fall of the House of Usher – Vocabulary
oppressively: done distressingly or grievously; uncomfortably intense dreary: causing sadness or gloom tract: an expanse or area of land melancholy: a gloomy state of mind; saddening insufferable: not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable pervaded: spread throughout; filled desolate: solitary; lonely bleak: depressing; dreary; bare vacant: empty; void sedges: a grasslike plant opium: a sedative drug…
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