The Fall of the House of Usher (storyboard project)
Storyboard Text
- "sinking and sickening,dark and dreary etc"
- Irony
- The quote applies to both the house and the Usher family. The description can demonstrate how the family and home are falling to pieces.
- " During the whole of dull, dark, and soundless day of the autumn yearwhen the clouds hungopressively low."
- In paragraph 1, sentence 1, Poe used dialougue and settings to help the reader form ideas and visions in their heads.
- Imagery
- In paragraph 1 sentence 4, Poe gives the house a human-like appearance by making the windows look like dead eyes, which might add to the scene's atmosphere.
- Personification
- "vacant eve-likewindows"
- “I shall perish,” said he, “I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost."
- Poe makes Usher one of the main characters in the story and foreshadows that he will die in the house since it is bound, which leaves the readers hooked.
- Foreshadowing
- " nervousagitation,paranoia, anddepression"
- " We haveburied heralive"
- The quotes come from different parts of the novel, but they both indicate suspense, which drives the story into a dismal and dark tone and keeps the reader interested in finding out what occurs next.
- Suspense
- #160;an atmosphere which hadno affinity with the air ofheaven, but which had reekedup from the decaying trees,and the gray wall, and thesilent tarn a pestilent andmystic vapor, dull, sluggish,faintly dicernible,and leadendhued."
- Poe used symbolism by referring to the appearance of the mansion and describing how it appears to embody the Ushers' insanity."
- Symbolism
Over 30 Million Storyboards Created