The Fall Of The House Of Usher Imagine being engrossed in a book that makes the reader feel as if they are actually there in that moment in time. With interesting conflicts and eerie settings Edgar Allan Poe does precisely that. Poe is recognized around the world for his unusual writing style. His tone and mood for his work is seriously strange and exciting at the same time. In “The Fall Of The House Of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe, he captures the attention of his readers by using tone, mood, and conflict.
Poe uses a tone of sick excitement when writing his “The Fall Of The House OF Usher”. He seems to enjoy the way he interprets dark themes and concepts of his writing. Edgar Allen Poe used his imagination to twist events that happened to him in real life into the chilling literature individuals read now. The readers can feel his tone and understand his outlook on the situation, whether he enjoyed it or despised it, through his excellent word choice. For example he says “To an anomalous species of terror I found him a bounden slave.” to describe his thoughts about a
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Edgar Allan Poe uses descriptive vocabulary like, melancholy and insufferable gloom, to help set the mood of the house. Chilling his readers to the bone as they follow the narrator through his stay at the House of Usher, he goes into frightening detail to keep the audience wrapped up in the eerie and evil atmosphere by telling that the narrator knows little about his friend, Roderick, and how he has “a cadaverousness of complexion.” (corpse like). Also he mentions Roderick twin sister, Madeline, who has a condition that is “long baffled the skill of her physicians.” Near the end she is said to be covered in blood, emaciated (unusually thin), and