-Imagery-This contributes to the story by letting us know how the narrator is preparing to go to Usher's house.
"I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay ruffled luster by the dwellingand dazed down..."
"During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day..."
-Diction-This contributes to the story because is the beginning of the story when the narrator is on his way to visit Usher.
-Irony-The description of the house, also described the Usher family. The collapse of the house resembled the collapsing of the family.
Sinking and sickening, dark and dreary.
-Foreshadowing-Foreshadows that Roderick will die, this contributes to the advancement of the story because he realizes how miserable he has been.
I must perish in this bounden slave
-Personification-It could describe the shape of the windows, or it could mean that eyes later in the short story will be vacant.
Vacant eye-like windows.
-Symbolism-This crack could mean the house is old, worn, it had endured many years if weather.
A barely perceptible fissure, which, extending from the roof of the building in front, made its way down the wall in a zigzag direction, until it became lost in the sullen waters of the tarn.