Gothic Features
What is an example of a gothic setting?
Castles, Forest , Abandoned/ Isolated buildings, the Moors, Nighttime
simile
events beyond scientific understanding
supernatural
supernatural
Eerie, ghostlike, magical, miraculous, otherworldly, spiritual, weird, witchlike, wizardly
What is an example of a gothic character?
Innocent Victim, Vampires, Werewolves, Ghosts/Monsters, Scary rich person, Antihero
the castle wall was a serpent, wrapping around me
metaphor
a feeling that something bad will happen; fearful apprehension
foreboding
decaying
Collapsing, crumbling, deteriorating, decomposing, disintegrating
What is an advanced adjective to describe Gothic?
dark, gloomy, obscure, eerie, insidious, malevolent, ominous
I thought the ghost had finally left. I thought wrong...
Ellipses
shrunken or wrinkled from age or disease
withered
foreboding
Dread, premonition, apprehension
What is an element or theme of Gothic Literature?
Darkness/ Night, Death, Good vs Evil, Mystery/ Secrets, Creepy Weather, Bad Omens, Melodrama, Nightmares
he felt his heart was pounding with fear that clutched his body
using the 5 senses
repulsively ugly or distorted
grotesque
grotesque
Disgusting, harsh, unpleasant, jarring, obscene
What is an example of a Gothic novel or short story?
The Red Room, Dracula, The Woman in Black, Rebecca
the dark towers glared and jumped out at me
personifcation
dark, shadowy or obscure
tenebrous
tenebrous
Dim, dingy, somber, obscure, sunless,