Poetic Devices
What is enjambment?
When a sentence in a poem is broken up into more than one line without a punctuation mark.
Which gothic short stories contained an unreliable narrator? (2)
Barney, The Yellow Wallpaper
Name 5 gothic elements.
extreme emotions, romance, gothic vocab, dark and spooky setting, mysterious and suspenseful atmosphere, an ancient prophecy, supernatural (or supernatural-seeming) events
Which period of history saw the introduction of sound and color to horror movies?
1920s-1940s
What is the difference between eastern and western horror movies?
Western horror: graphic violence, gore, and “shock horror.” The goal is to shock viewers with disturbing visuals.
Eastern horror: suspense, tension, atmosphere; supernatural elements are part of everyday life. Fear comes from mood and suggestion rather than gore.
What is the difference between assonance, consonance, and alliteration?
Assonance: repeated vowel sounds
Consonance: repeated consonance sounds
Alliteration: repeated sounds at the start of the word
Which gothic short stories contained a discovery? (3)
Barney, The Monkey's Paw, Blue Beard.
What is necrophobia?
The fear of anything dead
What made the horror movies of the 1920s different than before? What was it influenced by?
WWI
Became darker, more serious, and psychological, showing nightmares, madness, disease, and death.
Why is Jacob's family so rich?
They own a drug store chain.
The Tell-Tale Heart uses a lot of which poetic device to sound like a madman?
Anaphora
What are 2 similar elements between suspense techniques and film suspense techniques?
flashback, foreshadowing
Name 4 modern day “horrors” or “monsters”
mental illness, racism, addictions, good vs evil, women's rights, abusive relationships, war
Name all 5 film angles.
Eye-level, Birds Eye, High, Low, Dutch
What is the difference between a hollowgast and a wight?
Wight is a hollowgast that has eaten enough peculiars to look human.
Name 2 poetic devices from the following excerpt: Yet if hope has flown away in a night, or in a day, in a vision, or in none, is it therefore the less gone?
Anaphora, rhyme/rhythm
Name all 8 suspense techniques.
discovery, flashback, foreshadowing, in medias res, nonlinear narration, reversal, reverse chronology, unreliable narrator
Where does the word phobia come from?
Phobos, the greek god of fear
What is metonymy? Give an example.
When an object or visual cue reminds you of something else.
Ex: a storm before two characters fight, rain at a funeral
Name 4 different phobias and their meanings
What is the difference between a metaphor and a simile? Give an original example of each.
Simile:Figure of speech that compares two unlike things using the words "like" or "as."
Metaphor: Figure of speech that compares two unlike things without using the comparison words of "like" or "as."
My bedroom is like a pigpen, dirty and smelly but home sweet home.
My bedroom is a pigpen, dirty and smelly but home sweet home.
Which suspense techniques are not in Miss. P? (5)
in medias res, nonlinear narration, reversal, reverse chronology, unreliable narrator
Name 4 horrors/monsters from the 1800s
sexism, the human condition, advancement of science, mental illness, disabilities, treatment of the ugly
Name 3 macguffins from popular English movies
The hark in Jaws, R2D2’s message in Star Wars, the ring in The Lord of the Rings, stone in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, infinity stones in the MCU
Define these gothic words and state their part of speech:
1. bestowed
2. dowry
3. hysterically
4. resignation
bestowed: (verb) given to, presented
dowry: (noun) an amount of money a bride brings to her husband
hysterically: (adverb) with wild, uncontrolled emotion
resignation: (noun) the acceptance of something unwanted because you must