... one imagine a peculiarly frightful setting. From reading the Narrator's idea of the vault, one senses seclusion and an overall dreary location. The "sharp grating sound" from the massive iron door also contributes to the terror effect. Such noises are associated with moments of panic and fright. As Roderick Usher and the Narrator ... gloomy. To add, the storms and natural phenomena occurring in the story appertain to the sensation of terror. The Narrator describes "The impetuous fury of the entering gust". It causes the reader to vision a violent wind whirling about the characters. Poe's...

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