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Gothic |
Gothic is a style of writing characterised by horror, intense emotion and supernatural events.
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literature |
The conversation between characters in a work of literature.
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suspense |
The ending left us in suspense.
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omniscient |
God is described as omniscient meaning all knowing.
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narrator |
A voice telling a story for the first-person point of view, often used when the narrator is a character in the stor.
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hyperbole |
Exaggeration is the same as hyperbole.
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simile |
A simile involves comparing one thing to something else.
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personification |
Giving an object human qualities is personification - 'a strong wind menaced the trees'.
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dystopian |
A good dystopian novel will seem realistic, even though the events and setting are strange and disturbing.
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literature |
The conversation between characters in a work of literature.
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atmosphere |
The writer varies her sentence lengths to create a tense atmosphere.
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setting |
I took a great picture of the setting sun.
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