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"Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe Quiz, Analysis Worksheet, and Vocabulary Games

$8.10 $9.00

Evaluate general reading comprehension, facilitate vocabulary development, and sharpen critical thinking and literary craft analysis skills with this bundle of materials for teaching Edgar Allan Poe's supernatural short story "The Fall of the House of Usher." A plot-based quiz, a close reading inference worksheet, a vocabulary application activity, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, the narrative, and answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats. (Alternatively, a Google Drive option is available.) By engaging with these activities, students will:

  • Read for literal comprehension

  • Utilize dictionaries to ensure knowledge of word meanings

  • Infer the intended effects of the author's word choices and narrative techniques

  • Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences

  • Determine the functions of given excerpts

  • Explore the connection between the plot of the short story and the content of the poem titled "The Haunted Palace"

  • Examine how complex characters think, behave, interact, and develop

  • Apply knowledge of various sound and literary devices including alliteration, personification, euphemism, foreshadowing, situational irony, hyperbole, epiphany, juxtaposition, and more

  • Conduct brief research on Swiss painter Henry Fuseli to develop greater understanding of Poe's allusion to him

  • Support claims and inferences with sound reasoning and relevant evidence

  • Write about fiction with clarity, accuracy, and precision

  • Come to class better prepared to discuss literature

Resources are available for a variety of Gothic novels and short stories:

Evaluate general reading comprehension, facilitate vocabulary development, and sharpen critical thinking and literary craft analysis skills with this bundle of materials for teaching Edgar Allan Poe's supernatural short story "The Fall of the House of Usher." A plot-based quiz, a close reading inference worksheet, a vocabulary application activity, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, the narrative, and answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats. (Alternatively, a Google Drive option is available.) By engaging with these activities, students will:

  • Read for literal comprehension

  • Utilize dictionaries to ensure knowledge of word meanings

  • Infer the intended effects of the author's word choices and narrative techniques

  • Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences

  • Determine the functions of given excerpts

  • Explore the connection between the plot of the short story and the content of the poem titled "The Haunted Palace"

  • Examine how complex characters think, behave, interact, and develop

  • Apply knowledge of various sound and literary devices including alliteration, personification, euphemism, foreshadowing, situational irony, hyperbole, epiphany, juxtaposition, and more

  • Conduct brief research on Swiss painter Henry Fuseli to develop greater understanding of Poe's allusion to him

  • Support claims and inferences with sound reasoning and relevant evidence

  • Write about fiction with clarity, accuracy, and precision

  • Come to class better prepared to discuss literature

Resources are available for a variety of Gothic novels and short stories:

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Evaluate general reading comprehension, facilitate vocabulary development, and sharpen critical thinking and literary craft analysis skills with this bundle of materials for teaching Edgar Allan Poe's supernatural short story "The Fall of the House of Usher." A plot-based quiz, a close reading inference worksheet, a vocabulary application activity, a crossword puzzle, a word search game, the narrative, and answer keys are provided.