Fall of The House of Usher
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- Literary Device: PersonificationParagraph 1In this paragraph the author explains that the house has "vacant and eyelike windows"This literary device contributes to the plot by explaining the eeriness of the house that he got invited to by his old friend.
- Literary Device: AlliterationParagraph 1In this paragraph the author explains that the house gives him "an iciness, a sinking, a sinking of the heart"This literary device contributes to the plot by explaining how he feels about first seeing the house
- Literary Device: SymbolismParagraph 48In this paragraph the author is shown leaving the collapsing house of usher and later seeing the house of usher he says "Fragments of the House of Usher"This literary device contributed to the plot by symbolizing both
- Literary Device: MetaphorParagraph 13In this paragraph the author starts realizing the inside of the house is also eerie by saying "throughout his whole countenance there reigned a stony rigidity"This literary device contributes to the plot by explaining the inside of the house also being eerie like the outside.
- Literary Device: SimileParagraph 30In this paragraph the author thinks he hears something in the house saying "there was a long tumultuous shouting sound like the voice of a thousand waters"This literary device contributes to the plot my adding more eeriness to the story leading to the climax.
- Literary Device: ForeshadowingParagraph 19In this paragraph Rodrick Usher says "I must perish in this bounden slave" which foreshadows his death.This adds to the plot by showing the state of insanity Usher is in which makes the author sad and worried.
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