Question

Choose two terms from the elements of fiction lecture and apply them to "the fall of the house of usher." you learned in the authors lecture that poe is considered to be "the father of the modern-day short story." did you find his story engaging

Answer 1

The two terms that were in the elements of fiction lecture are the conflict and setting.

The setting is described as the time and place where the story happens. While conflict in literature is defined as the competition between two opposing forces. As the story begins, Edgar Allen Poe describes the setting as “During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low.” A sense of dullness of the area is established by Poe as the narrator is approaching and this dullness remained throughout the story and this is later changed into death. The conflict in “The Fall of the House of Usher” is when the narrator felt a creepy feeling when he approaches the house. The house’s scenery and appearance combined with the feelings of his past give him an uneasy feeling.