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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A peek at what's on the board — 5 categories and one sample clue from each. Answers stay hidden until you open them, so the game still works.
The small lake beside the mansion bears this single-word name.
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the tarn
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At the coffin, this close family relationship is revealed.
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twins
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In the song, this monarch rules the palace.
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Thought
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The phrase “vacant eyelike windows” uses this literary device.
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personification
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This term means a long, narrow crack.
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fissure
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Board content
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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