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The Fall of the House of Usher: Imagery and Parallelism
In his short story "The Fall of the House of Usher", Edgar Allen Poe
presents his reader with an intricately suspenseful plot filled with a
foreboding sense of destruction. Poe uses several literary devices, among the
most prevalent, however are his morbid image ....
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.... and kills her brother. The narrator flees from the
house, and no sooner does he get away than he turns around and sees a fissure in
the houses masonry envelop the house and then watch the ground swallow up the
remains.
In "The Fall of the House of Usher" Poe introduces the reader to three
characters; Lady Madeline, Roderick Usher, and the narrator, whose name is never
given. Lady Madelin, the twin sister of Roderick Usher, does not speak one word
throughout the story. In fact she is absent from most of the story, and she and
the narrator do not ....
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