-Unity of effect: single overall feeling
-Exploring strange & fantastic, conveying psychological terror through carefully chosen details and events
-Mood: feeling or atmosphere in words
-Setting: imagery & figurative language
*Autum, clouds hanging low
- Man rides horse to spooky House of Usher
- He used to be childhood friends with Roerick Usher, the house proprietor
- Rod sent him a letter that Rod now had a mental illness. Rod wanted to see him. He agreed to go give Rod a visit.
- Rod was always really quiet and didn't say much.
- House featuers gothic archecticture.
- The future scares Rod
- Rod's sister Madeline is about to die. She goes into coma like stages because of her illness.
- Rod and the man mourned over her death by opening her coffin so Rod could say his goodbyes again.
- The man watches as Rod goes crazy, thinking his sister has awakened from her death.
- Rod and the man saw Madeline's ghost in the hallway, she fell into Rod so they became one and she killed him.
-->Rod burries her alive because of her diease. She has spells like she is in a coma. Rod knows that she isn't dead, but still buries her. When she is in the coffin, he can hear her scratching at the wood.
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