Literary Terms: The Fall of the House of Usher

Atmosphere

• the air

• the mood or feeling

• a piece of writing

• direct comparison

Allusion

• a reference to someone or something in history, literature, etc.

• repetitive vowel sounds

• a magic trick

• descriptive words

Foreshadow

• the person telling the story

• the "bad guy" character

• the "good guy" character

• the use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot

Narrator

• a prediction

• the person telling the story

• a direct comparison between two unlike things

• giving human characteristics to a non-human thing

Setting

• Where and When the story takes place

• the feeling or mood of the story

• the "bad guy" character

• the "good guy" character

Imagery

• an extreme exageration

• giving something non-human, human qualities

• the use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, a thing, a place, or an experience.

• the time and place of story

Personification

• the vantage point from which the writer tells a story.

• a figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings,thoughts, or attitudes.

• the use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot.

• a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.

Anecdote

• the mood or feeling created in a piece of writing.

• a reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature, etc.

• the arrangement of things following one after another in time.

• a very brief story, told to illustrate a point or serve as an example of something.

Symbol

• a person,place,thing, or event that has meaning in itself and that also stands for something more than itself.

• the vantage point from which the writer tells a story.

• the association and emotional overtones that have become attached to a word or phrase, in addition to its strict dictionary definition.

• the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests.

Allegory

• the use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, a thing, a place, or an experience.

• a story or poem in which characters,settings,and events stands for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities.

• a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.

• the use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot.