| A | B |
|---|
| sepulchre | tomb |
| motley | clown suit |
| Virginia Clemm | Poe's wife |
| John and Frances Allan | Poe's foster parents |
| seraph | angel |
| Amontillado | wine |
| catacomb | underground gallery for burial |
| definitively | to be looked on as final |
| immolation | sacrifice |
| horrific | horrifying, scary |
| crypt | vault |
| gaily | handsomely |
| pilgrim shadow | wandering ghost |
| niter | salt deposits |
| seraphs | angels |
| dreary | gloomy |
| plume | feather |
| perish | to end |
| melancholy | gloomy |
| reluctantly | unwilling |
| vapors | gaseous form of a substance |
| hypochondriac | person who has a morbid depression about his health |
| Montressor | Main character in The Cask of Amontilldo |
| Roderick Usher | suffers from acuteness of the senses |
| Madeline Usher | has catalepsy |
| raven | repeats the word "nevermore" |
| knight | searchs for Eldorado |
| Annabel Lee | is in a sepulchre by the sea |
| Jonathan Beranger | witnesses the fall of Usher |
| Fortunato | is walled up in a catacomb |
