Horror Subgenres
A subgenre of horror that focuses on entities or forces beyond our understanding in order to shock and surprise its audience.
What is "Cosmic Horror"?
A literary device where characters, settings, objects, fears/hopes, or actions that represent a larger idea.
What is "Symbolism"?
Hi-tech advancements in a poor, beaten down society.
What is "Cyberpunk"?
Biased or misleading information used to promote a particular cause or view.
What is "Propaganda"?
The ghost that Stephen sees at the end of "Haunting of Hill House" ep. 1.
What is "his sister, Nell's ghost"?
A subgenre of horror that intentionally showcases disturbing violations of the human body and focuses on the change of the body
What is "Body Horror"?
A character in some authority/position of power who is willfully oblivious to the events of the story”
What is "The Idiot Cop"?
What is "Fantasy"?
The process of taking away a person’s human traits or individuality.
What is "Dehumanization"?
In "The Veldt", the children wanted the room to __________ their parents.
What is "replace"?
Horror where the antagonist/antagonistic forces bring on the end-times for humanity, and our protagonists must adapt.
What is "Apocalypse"?
This monster represents fear of transformation or change.
What are "werewolves"?
When fantastical elements (witches, dragons, vampires) are dropped into “our” world”.
What is "Urban Fantasy"?
A person who enforces strict control over someone or something.
What is "Authoritarian"?
In "The Lottery", Old Man Warner represents the fear of _____________ in society.
What is "change"?
A narrative device that an audience can recognize across different stories.
What is "trope"?
The part of the five elements of horror that uses the audience's own fears to subvert their expectations (make them believe something else).
What is "Setting"?
Science Fiction is often called the literature of _________.
What is "ideas"?
A form of government that requires complete subservience to the state.
What is "Totalitarianism"?
A theme of "Click Clack the Rattlebag".
What is "things are not always what they seem"?
The four main subgenres of horror.
What are "Psychological Horror, Slasher, Supernatural Horror, and Folk Horror"?
All 5 Elements of Horror.
What is "Fear, Suspense, Setting, Mystery, and Foreshadowing"?
Chemistry, biology, and astronomy fall under this type of science fiction.
What is "Hard Sci-Fi"?
What "no place" means in Greek.
What is "Utopia"?
In "The Tell-Tale Heart", the narrator was frightened of the old man's ___________ which led to him killing the man.
What is "the old blue eye" or "the eye"?