"The Raven" & "The Fall of the House of Usher" Review for December 1st Test

The Raven & The Fall of the House of Usher Review

What is the effect is created in the opening description of the House of Usher?  wariness

The letter the narrator receives says Usher is nervous and passionate.

The narrator is a person who values what? Reason

The core meaning of the phrase “One of the phantasmagoric conceptions of my friend, partaking not so rigidly of the spirit of abstraction, may be shadowed forth, although feebly, in words means… One of the phantasmagoric conceptions of my friend may be shadowed forth in words.

Central theme of The Fall fo the House of Usher is?? A person cut off from the world can fall prey to irrational fears and mental illness.

What does the narrator’s fear of the tarn foreshadow? The ending of the story.

Why does the narrator start when Roderick Usher mentions “the gradual yet certain condensation of an atmosphere…about the waters and the walls” of the House of Usher? The narrator himself felt such an atmosphere when he approached the estate.

What does the speaker mean when he describes Lenore as “nameless here for evermore” in the Raven? Lenore is so special that she is nameless in the speaker's heart.

What is the central theme in “The Raven?” Isolation can lead to madness.

The phrase “Equivocal appellation of the “House of Usher” refers to the fact that the title “House of Usher” seems to include both the estate and the family.

Comparative adjective: Compares two nouns.  Example: This truck uses more gar than this car. This is just a comparison of two things, only two.

Superlative adjective: Compares 3 or more nouns (the extreme).  Example: My mother’s cooking is the best. This is comparing mother's cooking to everyone in the world, more than three.