The Fall of the House of Usher Literary Devices
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- Doubling - Roderick and Madeline Usher
- Personification - Windows
- "upon the bleak walls-upon the vacant eyelike windows"
- Alliteration: Heart
- "There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart"
- Their place as twins in the story is doubling, psychologically they torture each other and are always at the end of the spectrum. Like how Roderick's mental health is deteriorating while Madeline's physical health is deteriorating at the same time.
- Point of View - Narrator
- Line 12-13 Paragraph 1 The personification of the windows helps the reader see and portray the image of the house in their mind; it also gives the sense that the house feels eerie and is not ordinary.
- Simile - Breaking House
- Lines 17-18 Paragraph 1The narrator uses alliteration to express how he feels and how his heart feels ill when he thinks about the House of Usher.
- Symbolism - The house and Family
- Line 7-8 Paragraph 1The narrator's point of view helps us see how broken and insane Roderick Usher really is.
- "I say insufferable; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable"
- Line 12-13 Paragraph 48The simile the narrator provides gives the reader a comparison they could use to simulate how it would sound when the house was falling.
- "there was a long tumultuous shouting sound like the voice of a thousand waters"
- The house cracking and falling apart symbolizes the Usher family. The house being cracked and broken represents the mental state of Usher and his sister.
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