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This poet wrote the line, "But evil things in robes of sorrow,/ Assailed the monarch's high estate"
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
The button eyes in Coraline are an example of this poetic device.
What is a symbol?
This element of horror is found in "The Lottery" when a cheerful village gathering turns into a violent ritual.
What is shock?
The narrator in "The Tell-Tale Heart" killed the old man because of this.
What is the evil eye?
Coraline subverts traditional horror elements by empowering a child to confront fear directly which contrasts with the doomed characters in "The Monkey's Paw" or "The Lottery".
How does Coraline reflect or subvert the horror elements seen in other texts?
This writer used the horror element of having a seemingly ordinary town turn into a horrific dystopia.
Who is Shirley Jackson?
The line, "By the lonely traveller's call" is an example of this sound device.
What is consonance?
The Haunted Palace and the descriptions of ruin evoke this element of horror tied to physical and mental breakdown.
What is decay or deterioration?
This is the amount of money that Mr. and Mrs. White gained from their deceased son's company.
What is 200 pounds?
The medium shapes how horror is experienced: films like Coraline use visuals and sound to create tension, short stories such as The Monkey’s Paw build suspense through pacing and detail, and poems like The Listeners evoke unease through rhythm and ambiguity.
How does the medium affect how horror elements are presented? (Movie, story, poem)
This writer was the only one to provide a happy ending during this unit.
Who is Neil Gaiman?
The line in the Monkey's Paw, "The first man had his three wishes, yes," was the reply. "I don't know what the first two were, but the third was for death. That's how I got the paw." is an example of this literary device.
What is foreshadowing?
The Listeners shows this element of horror by having the Traveller repeatedly ask, “Is there anybody there?”
What is isolation?
Sergeant Major Morris claimed that a curse was put on the monkey's paw by this person.
What is an old Fakir?
In The Monkey’s Paw, suspense is built overtime through incremental reveals, whereas The Lottery delivers a shocking climax, making its suspense sudden and jarring.
How is suspense built in The Monkey’s Paw compared to The Lottery.
This writer wrote about some phantom listeners who refused to answer a traveller's call.
Who is Walter De La Mare?
This literary device shows the deterioration of a human mind by describing the deterioration of a castle.
What is personification?
"The Tell-Tale Heart" demonstrates this element of horror through the narrator’s obsessive thoughts and descent into irrational behaviour.
What is madness?
This character was stoned to death by her community in the story, "The Lottery".
Who is Tessie Hutchinson?
Stories like The Monkey's Paw and The Lottery use tangible plot-driven events to evoke fear whereas in poems like The Listeners or The Haunted Palace, the horror is dependent on devices such as repetition, personification, and rhythm.
How does the use of poetic devices in The Listeners or The Haunted Palace create a unique kind of horror compared to the short stories?
This writer used the sound of a beating heart to represent a mad man's guilt.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
This literary device has shocks the reader when it is discovered that the prize for winning the lottery is a gruesome public death.
What is (situational) irony?
"The Listeners" shows this element of horror through its mysterious setting and unanswered questions
What is fear of the unknown?
The "Other Mother" in Coraline was revealed to be this monster in the third act.
What is the beldam?
These texts suggest that horror often mirrors cultural anxieties about control, conformity, and the limits of human understanding.
How do these texts reflect common fears—such as fate, tradition, or the unknown—and what does that suggest about society?