Gothic Literary Terms
The thing that returns from the dead.
What is a revenant?
The definition of the Uncanny.
What is something familiar but not?
A recurring idea within a text.
What is a motif?
The grandfather of the gothic...a very sad man.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
A literary and artistic movement that was from the late 18th-19th century.
What was the Romantic Movement?
A woman who in trouble who needs help.
What is a damsel in distress?
The definition of catharsis.
The hidden message, life lesson, or moral within a story.
What is a theme?
The vast majority of the author's we have studied have this problem in their lives.
What are father issues?
The thing that would eventually lead to our modern day city.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
The black art of communicating with the dead.
What is necromancy?
The definition of the sublime.
What is nature that is both awe-inspiring yet terrrifying?
Definition of imagery.
What is when words are used to paint a descriptive scene?
The thing that Aylmer will not stop obsessing over.
What is Georgiana's birthmark?
The belief that God governs all aspects of life.
What is Puritanism?
A creature that seeks nourishment from the living.
What is a vampire?
The German word for uncanny.
An object or element that represents something else.
What is symbolism?
The thing that haunts Nathaniel.
What is the Sandman?
The thing that haunted Nathaniel Hawthorne.
What were the Salem Witch Trials?
A not quiet hero but not quiet villain.
What is the villain-hero/Satanic/Promethean/Byronic Hero?
The one whose idea of the sublime took ahold in the romantics.
Who is Edmund Burke?
When a story or novel is made up of letters.
What is epistolary?
Olympia is.
What is an automaton?
Ms. S's favourite poet who also died of tuberculosis.
Who is John Keats?