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“The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe

                        Figurative Language __________________________Example

Hyberbole        His long improvise                         

                        dirges will ring

                                                                        forever in my ears

                                               Imagery           The disease which had thus entombed the lady in the maturity of youth, had left, as usual in all maladies of a strictly cataleptical character, the mockery of a faint blush upon the bosom and the face, and that suspiciously lingering smile 

                                                                     Upon the lip which is so terrible in death

                             Metaphor         I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow

         Personification    We painted and read together; or I listened, as if in a dream, to the wild improvisations of his speaking guitar.

Simile          Upon the vacant, eye-like

                             windows