Elements of Horror
"The bureau rose into the air...She lowered it. Lifted it. Lowered it."
supernatural
"Now she's on the Decoration Committee, happy as a clam"
Simile
"The smell of fresh earth was heavy and gravid and sweet on the warm May air"
smell
“He would have done murder for her, and more.”
Terror
"The flow of blood was immediate and startling. Several of the boys were splattered and jumped back with little cries of disgust."
blood
"it was harsh and brilliant, like jagged strokes of lightning"
Simile
"Susan looked up just in time to see her walking into the cubby-hole office to the left of the gym entrance."
sight
"One of the sows dropped dead with its tongue protruding, eyes still open, potato chip crumbs around its snout."
horror
"Be sure your sin will find you out. Burn it, Carrie! cast that devil's red from you and burn it! Burn it! Burn it! Burn it!"
religion
"the car was his slave and god"
metaphor
"the buzzer in the hall made its harsh cry"
sound
then more bumps and thumps and then the house began to throw its furnishings around and Momma dropped the knife and got on her knees and began to pray, holding up her hands and swaying on her knees while chairs whistled down the hall and the beds upstairs fell over and the dining room table tried to jam itself through a window and then momma's eyes growing huge and crazed, bulging
Terror
"One wonders just how much planning went into the ruination of Carrie White."
revenge
"and then the stones and Momma had fainted as their roof cracked and thumped as if with the foot falls of God and then-"
onomatopoeia
"They were mumbingly cold to the touch, lightly traced with frost"
touch
"Her mother reached up and pinched her own face. It left a red mark. She looked to Carrie for reaction, saw none, hooked her right hand into claws and ripped it across her own cheek, bringing thing blood."
horror
"Momma stop momma don't i can't breathe o my throat o momma i'm sorry i looked momma"
women in distress
"kenny's brother slid between the slates, lifted the pig's head toward the moon-the glazing eyes regarded the crescent with rapt blackness- and slashed."
epithet
"No one was supposed to see the actual King and Queen ballot until Friday, when the whole student body would hear the candidates announced over the school's intercom."
sound
"Here it comes," Billy remarked, and the sledge flashed down. There was a sound that reminded him of the time he and Henry had dropped a pumpkin Claridge Road overpass...495 west of town"
revulsion (gag reflex)