Explanation: In "The Fall of the House of Usher", by Edgar Allan Poe, this line implies that <u><em>appearances may be deceiving</em></u>. The narrator is arriving to the House of Usher. He was summoned there by Roderick Usher, a school-friend of his. When he sees the house from a distance he looks around the house to watch the effects of time. As we know even if the house does not look unstable, it falls down.
In Franklin D. Roosevelt's Infamy speech, the speaker begins by <u><em>describing Japan's betrayal</em></u>. President Roosevelt delivered this speech a day after the Empire of Japan attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The speech starts by depicting the Japanese attack as an unprovoked aggression.
