Name: Hour: Short Answer Responses DIRECTIONS: Respond to the following questions using complete thoughts and paying

attention to the conventions of English language, punctuation, and grammar. Setting plays a significant role in Poes works. 1. In The Fall of the House of Usher, the phantasmagoric setting Poe creates not only serves as an exquisite background for the story, but also gives the reader insight into the mystery of the characters. Through Poes descriptive personification, how does the physical state of the mansion become representative of the mental and/or physical state of the family of Usher? Explain your thinking using specific details from the story. 2. The rooms are representative of human life in Masque of the Red Death. Each room, in other words, corresponds to a different "stage" of human life, which its color suggests. The first clue that the suite is allegorical is that the rooms are arranged from east to west. East is usually the direction associated with "beginnings," and birth, because the sun rises in the east; west (the direction of the sunset) is associated with endings, and death. From East to West, the blue room represents birth. The color suggests the "unknown" from which a human being comes into the world. The next room is purple, a combination of blue (birth) and red (associated with life, intensity) suggests the beginnings of growth. Green, the next color, suggests the "spring" of life (youth), orange the summer and autumn of life. White, the next color, suggests age think white hair, and bones. Violet (a combination of purple and blue, or purple and grey) is a shadowy color, and represents darkness and death. And black, obviously, is death. Knowing this, how do the rooms represent the choices people in the story are making to avoid the Red Death? What ultimately happens in the final room? Explain your thinking using specific details from the story. 3. How does Poe manipulate setting to add to the mood?