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The Fall of Usher: Grade 10A Review

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This board helps players review Poe's Usher through a Jeopardy-style game format on Kleveroo. It includes categories such as The House, Roderick & Madeline, The Haunted Palace, Gothic & Craft, Words & Lines. It is useful for classroom review, team trivia, family game night, test prep, and group play.

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  • The House

    The small lake beside the mansion bears this single-word name.

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    the tarn

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  • Roderick & Madeline

    At the coffin, this close family relationship is revealed.

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    twins

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  • The Haunted Palace

    In the song, this monarch rules the palace.

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    Thought

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  • Gothic & Craft

    The phrase “vacant eyelike windows” uses this literary device.

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    personification

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  • Words & Lines

    This term means a long, narrow crack.

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    fissure

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The House

$100 — The small lake beside the mansion bears this single-word name.
the tarn
$200 — Looking into the tarn, the narrator sees this inverted image.
the house and trees upside down
$300 — These tiny growths hang from the eaves in a fine tangled web-work.
tiny fungi
$400 — Roderick’s studio receives this kind of dim, colored light.
feeble crimson light
$500 — The house’s decay is compared to this concealed rot.
old woodwork in a sealed vault

Roderick & Madeline

$100 — At the coffin, this close family relationship is revealed.
twins
$200 — Roderick admits he fears this more than danger itself.
fear itself
$300 — Roderick calls his condition this kind of ailment.
a nervous affection
$400 — Madeline’s death would make Roderick this within the family line.
the last of the Ushers
$500 — When Madeline appears, this stain on her white robes shows her struggle.
blood on her white robes

The Haunted Palace

$100 — In the song, this monarch rules the palace.
Thought
$200 — The two luminous windows symbolize these features of Roderick.
Roderick's eyes
$300 — From the palace door flowed this singing company.
a troop of Echoes
$400 — These two changes show the palace is now haunted.
red-litten windows, discordant music
$500 — The narrator believes the song reveals this about Roderick’s mind.
his reason is failing

Gothic & Craft

$100 — The phrase “vacant eyelike windows” uses this literary device.
personification
$200 — The barely visible fissure early on serves as this device.
foreshadowing
$300 — Broken sentences in ¶13 are crafted to mirror this quality of Roderick.
Roderick’s broken speech
$400 — The climax becomes a story within a story because of this echoed feature.
the Mad Trist’s echoed sounds
$500 — One sign the narrator may be unreliable is this admitted concern.
his 'excited fancy' confession

Words & Lines

$100 — This term means a long, narrow crack.
fissure
$200 — This concept word names the final shouting sound.
tumultuous
$300 — Finish Roderick’s cry: “We have put her living in…”
the tomb!
$400 — In Roderick’s confession, “rending” refers to this action.
tearing of the coffin
$500 — In the last sentence, the tarn closes this way over the house.
sullenly and silently

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