Gothic Literature
This century marked the beginning of the Gothic literary tradition.
What is the 18th century/Romantic period.
Appeals to logic and reason. It uses facts, evidence, statistics, or logical arguments to persuade an audience.
Logos
This literary device gives hints or clues about future events in a story.
What is foreshadowing?
In this short story, siblings are haunted by an eerie, unseen presence in their family home, eventually forced to flee.
What is "House Taken Over" by Julio Cortázar?
Is critical for engaging the reader. It builds momentum and raises stakes, making the reader invested in the outcome.
Rising Action
A Gothic motif involving doubles or split personalities.
What is duality or the doppelgänger?
Evokes feelings to persuade the audience.
Pathos
This device uses objects, characters, or colors to represent deeper meanings beyond their literal sense.
What is symbolism?
This novel explores the dangers of unchecked ambition, leading to the creation of a creature that both haunts and destroys its creator.
What is Frankenstein by Mary Shelley?
Sets up the background, introduces the main characters, establishes the setting, and provides the reader with any necessary context or background information.
Exposition
Gothic literature often explores this inner psychological struggle of characters.
What is madness?
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Logos
This element of a story involves the time and place where the events occur, often setting the tone and mood.
What is setting?
In this story, the narrator becomes increasingly obsessed with his sister's decline and the crumbling of his family's home, which reflects his own mental state.
What is "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe?
This is the turning point/most intense moment of the story.
Climax
This theme, often central to Gothic literature, describes the feeling of being cut off from society or loved ones, leading to despair and madness.
What is isolation?
Builds trust and establishes the speaker/writer’s credibility, trustworthiness, and authority to persuade the audience.
Ethos
A narrator who is not entirely trustworthy, causing readers to question the validity of their perspective and creating mystery.
What is an unreliable narrator?
This tale revolves around a man driven to madness, who believes that the eye of his victim must be destroyed, leading to a chilling murder.
What is "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe?
The main character who drives the story forward
Protagonist
This term describes a feeling of uneasy wonder often evoked by Gothic works.
What is the sublime?
The four reasons for giving a speech
To inspire, to persuade, to entertain, or to inform.
Which literary device is exemplified in the phrase "the house was alive with whispers"?
Metaphor
In A Tell-Tale Heart, what does the narrator do with the old man’s body after the murder?
He dismembers it and hides it underneath the floorboards.
The narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters (e.g., Pride and Prejudice).
Third Person (Omnicient)