This excerpt from “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe describes the moment when the narrator and Roderick Usher realize that they buried Lady Madeline alive, and that she is actually opening the doors of the room where they are.
the tone is the attitude toward the subject.
Answer:
I'm thinking that "riding to their deaths" could mean two different things.
1. A simile, Riding to their deaths can mean riding for a long time.
2. Literally, Riding to their deaths can also mean that they are going to get into trouble from something ahead.
Explanation:
The similarity between a story and a free verse poem is that they both don't need anything to rhyme in it. Both of them don't consist of meter or musical patterns.
