Somnambulism
This altered state of consciousness allows the main character to act while seemingly asleep, driving the events of Somnambulism.
Sleepwalking
Edgar Allan Poe is especially known for writing in this genre, which often focuses on fear, death, and the human mind.
Gothic
This poetic device involves repeating the same consonant sound at the beginning of nearby words.
Alliteration
In the CRAAP Test, this letter asks how recent or up-to-date a source is.
Currency
This rare naturally spawning mob, exclusive to the Overworld, only drops a music disc when killed by a skeleton.
A Creeper
This 2018 Billie Eilish song features whispered vocals and became a sleeper hit after fans noticed its minimalist production.
Bury a Friend
Charles Brockden Brown uses this narrative technique to reveal events gradually and create uncertainty about what is real.
Unreliable Narrator/First Person Limited
(Pit and Pendulum) This physical sensation is used throughout the story to heighten the narrator’s terror and disorientation.
Darkness/Swooning
This common meter consists of five iambs per line and is often used by Shakespeare.
Iambic pentameter
This part of the CRAAP Test evaluates the author’s credentials and expertise.
Authority
This HBO series, based on a video game franchise, follows Joel and Ellie through a post-apocalyptic United States.
The Last of Us
“Hope I’m not too late / I forgot my face” are lyrics from this 2022 Olivia Rodrigo track off GUTS.
vampire
Brown’s use of somnambulism reflects a shift away from pure Enlightenment ideals and toward this emerging literary movement. (Hint: Literary Era from Poe Unit)
Romanticism
(Black Cat) The narrator’s increasing violence toward animals and people most clearly reflects this internal struggle.
Descent into madness
The repetition of vowel sounds within nearby words, as in “mellow wedding bells,” is called this.
Assonance
A website that has not been updated in over ten years would most strongly fail this part of the CRAAP Test.
Currency
In Fortnite, this limited-time event in 2019 permanently destroyed the original map and introduced Chapter 2.
Black Hole Event
This song, released in 2021, became viral on TikTok partly due to its distorted bass drop and was produced by Nick Mira for Juice WRLD.
Bandit
Brown uses the somnambulist’s detailed actions while unconscious to create suspense and challenge the reader’s expectations about this quality in human behavior.
Reality/Concious Control
Both “The Pit and the Pendulum” and “The Black Cat” rely heavily on these literary strategies to create characters, settings, tone, and plot.
Gothic Techniques
This element of a Shakespearean sonnet typically delivers a conclusion or resolution to the poem’s main idea.
Final rhyming couplet
If a source is written to persuade rather than inform, it should be questioned under this CRAAP Test category.
Purpose
In Minecraft, using a Lodestone, players can set this item to always point toward a fixed location, even across dimensions.
Compass
This 2021 Sabrina Carpenter song from her album Emails I Can’t Send explores the frustration of wanting honesty in a relationship, opening with the lyric “You don’t even know me at all.”
Skin
The fear generated by somnambulism in the story reflects early American anxieties about this broader issue in the new nation.
Personal (or National) Identity
Poe’s repeated focus on guilt, fear, and psychological torment is often linked by scholars to this aspect of his personal life.
Personal lost
A line of poetry that begins with a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable demonstrates this metrical substitution.
Trochaic
A source that presents emotional language, ignores counterarguments, and promotes only one viewpoint most clearly fails this criterion.
Accuracy
This strategy, used by artists like Travis Scott and Ariana Grande, involves performing live concerts inside video games to reach massive audiences.
Virtual (In-Game) Concerts
This Folklore track tells a story of forbidden love with mysterious characters and a haunting, melancholic tone, opening with “I remember this moment, I’ll never forget it.”
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