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She wrote the famous novel Frankenstein and was the wife of Percy Shelley.
Who is Mary Shelley?
This part of the story ties up all loose ends of the plot.
What is the falling action?
A place/ setting where Gothic literature usually takes place.
What is a decaying mansion, an old castle, or a structure once-grand that is in decay, or dark, gloomy settings?
The narrator tells his story from here.
What is prison or asylum?
Gothic literature first became popular around this time period and in this country.
What is England, in the late 18th to the 19th century?
He is a well-known, Virginian author who wrote many pieces of Gothic literature including short stories and poems.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
This step of plot analysis comes at the end of the exposition and begins the plot of the story.
What is the inciting incident?
These bizarre entities are common antagonists in gothic works.
Who are ghosts, witches, vampires, supernatural beings and monsters?
Quoth the raven?
What is nevermore?
Often considered the first gothic.
What is The Castle of Otranto?
He wrote many modern Gothic novels, including It, The Dark Tower and much more.
Who is Stephen King?
In Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart, it is revealed in this part of the story that the father had an evil eye.
What is the exposition?
How the protagonist of a Gothic novel commonly feels.
What are intense emotions?
These many rooms host a large party.
What is seven?
Who is Johnny Depp?
He is considered the father of the modern vampire novel.
Who is Bram Stoker?
The death of all the participants in Prince Prospero's masque is this part of the story.
What is the resolution?
The women in Gothic literature are typically portrayed as this.
Who are damsels in distress?
The narrator of some other gothic tales might have this in common with the narrator from "The Tell-Tale Heart."
What is unreliable/mad?
The true monster, rather than his creation.
Who is Dr. Frankenstein?
He first used the word 'Gothic' to describe a story, The Castle of Otranto.
Who is Horace Walpole?
The murder of the father in The Tell-Tale Heart is this part of plot development.
What is the rising action?
The reason that many people in Gothic novels die, what haunts them?
What are curses or prophesies?
The author died in this manner.
What is unknown?
Movies like Star Wars and Ender's Game only exist because of this type of literature?
What is gothic?