"Fall of the House of Usher" and the sense of foreboding

“The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allen Poe creates a sense of oreboding that is highly conveyed through Poe’s diction, imagery , and sentence structure; otherwise known as syntax.

Edgar Allen Poe’s choice of words clearly incorporate the sense of “evil omen” . Poe’s use of negative connotation such as the use of the prefix “un” , which is the opposite of or contrary to a particular thing, expresses the gloom and negativity represented in the text. Such
wordsinclude: “unrelieved”, “unredeemed”, “unnerved”, “unsa
tisfactory”, “unruffled”. The use of these gloomy and obscure words clearly convey the author’s attitude.

Poe’s imagery is yet another key-element that adds to the foreboding. There is clear use o...