Poe/Usher Vocabulary

The deep and dank tarn at my feet closed sullenly and silently over the fragments of the House of Usher.

• pond

• roof

• door

• tunnel

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

There was blood upon her white robes, and the evidence of some bitter struggle upon every portion of her emaciated frame.

• withered/thin

• broken

• strong

• bloody

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

I shall ever bear about me a memory of the many solemn hours I thus spent alone with the master of the House of Usher.

• happy

• memorable

• dreary/sullen, sad

• past

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Ethelred, now entering within the door, was sore enraged and amazed to perceive no signal of the maliceful hermit; but, in the stead thereof, a dragon of a scaly and prodigious demeanor, and of a fiery tongue, which sate in guard before a palace of gold.

• large

• steep

• scary

• fearful

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

It was, indeed, a tempestuous yet sternly beautiful night, and one wildly singular in its terror and its beauty.

• strange

• single

• dangerous

• dark

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

He suffered much from a morbid acuteness of the senses.

• severity

• small

• cute

• knowledge

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

There was a species of mad hilarity in his eyes—an evidently restrained hysteria in his whole demeanor. 

• panic/fear

• excitement

• happiness

• impatience

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

He entered into what he conceived to be the nature of his malady. It was, he said, a constitutional and a family evil, and one for which he despaired to find a remedy—a mere nervous affection.

• sickness

• my lady

• home

• death

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

The family physician accosted me with trepidation and passed on.

• fear

• hesitation

• energy

• excitement

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"Is she not hurrying to upbraid me for my haste?" -Roderick

• rebuke/scold

• congratulate

• comfort

• award

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4