Gothic Literature??
BLEAK SETTING
TORTURED CHARACTERS
STRANGE OR VIOLENT PLOT
DRAMATIC DESCRIPTION
GLOOMY MOOD
RECURRING SYMBOLISM
What type of sentence is this?
"This house is too expensive, and that house is too small"
Compound
How many branches does the US government have?
3
Narrative Poetry??
A narrative poem relates a story in verse. Like a narrator in prose fiction, the speaker of a poem is an imaginary voice that “tells” the story.
What type of sentence is this?
She exercises every morning.
Simple
Who is considered to be the first superhero?
Superman
What is denotation?
a word’s literal definition that you will find in a dictionary.
What type of sentence is it?
While you cook dinner, I'll set the table.
Compound
Where is a shrimps heart?
In its heaad
Magical Reallism genre
Recognizable characters who feel, act, and react in customary ways.
Realistic settings that include ordinary details of everyday life
Fantastic events that coexist with realistic characters and actions
An accepting or unimpressed narrative tone, or attitude, that presents fantastic events as logical arts of life
What is connotation?
the associations or feelings that a word suggests
Is an avocado a fruit or a vegetable?
A fruit!
Modern Gothic Literature??
Setting - Ordinary place, which may make strange events more unsettling
Characters - Ordinary people, to whom readers can easily relate
Plot events - Situations in which normal life is interrupted in disturbing ways.
Endings - Ambiguous endings that leave questions unanswered
what type of sentence is it?
Though Mitchell prefers watching romantic films, he rented the latest spy thriller, and he enjoyed it very much.
Compound-complex
Finish the lyrics!!
Are we an item? Girl quit playin
Were just friends, what are you sayin?
said ¨theres another¨ and looked right in my eyes