Define Elements
The feeling that something bad is about to happen.
This Gothic element is most prevalent in the following quote: "Despite the darkness, she can make out the graves in between the garden's weeds. Vigil oil lamps burn like eyes of beasts on the marbles."
What is setting/atmosphere?
The universal message or lesson of a text.
What is theme?
Hinting at future events in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
Things - physically or psychologically - are in the process of decline.
What is decay?
This Gothic element is most prevalent in the following quote: "The curtains were drawn, and even though there was enough light, the feeling he got was of a den of shadows"
What is foreboding?
The author's attitude toward the subject.
What is tone?
Vivid descriptions that appeal to the reader's senses.
What is imagery?
May or may not have a rational explanation.
What is the supernatural?
This Gothic element is most prevelant in the following quote: "His voice was the voice of death, like the munching of a thousand worms, it meant nothing but itself, emptiness"
What is Heightened Emotions?
The literal, dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
"Darkness surrounded me like thick cotton wool."
What is a simile?
This element helps readers feel terror alongside the characters.
What is Heightened Emotions?
The brother's body in "Firstborn" is an example of these 2 elements.
What is decay and the supernatural?
The ideas or feelings a word conveys.
What is connotation?
"Then he stepped over the threshold and the room swallowed him."
What is personification?
Gothic protagonists may be isolated, threatened, or __________.
What is unreliable?
This Gothic element is most prevalent in this quote: "All day I had been riding on horseback with little life or beauty, and in early evening I came within view of the House of Usher."
What is isolation?
The word choice in a text.
"I started to whimper...[it was] the whimper of an animal in the mouth of the predator."
What is metaphor?