Gothic Key Words
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trauma |
The trauma of the afternoon stayed with him for a long time.
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obscurity |
His obscurity in the town meant that no person knew he was there.
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genre |
Susan Hill's novel, The Woman In Black, belongs to the Gothic genre.
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novella |
A novella is a short novel.
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spectre
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Spectre is another word for ghost.
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Gothic |
Gothic is a style of writing characterised by horror, intense emotion and supernatural events.
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atmosphere |
The writer varies her sentence lengths to create a tense atmosphere.
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function |
The function of the isolated setting is to create tension and inspire fear.
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tension |
The high tension at Eel Marsh House is unbearable.
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convention |
One convention of Gothic Horror is the haunted house.
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narrative |
A first person narrative is a story told in the first person (‘I’) rather than in the third person (‘he’ / ‘she’ etc.).
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intention |
I have every intention of improving my spelling.
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mood |
I could infer from the isolated setting that the mood of the novella was tense and nervous.
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tone |
The Gothic tone was evident throughout the novella.
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foreboding |
The dark, menacing clouds created a sense of foreboding.
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foreshadowing |
When we are given clues about bad events to come in the play.
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exposition |
The explanation of the background material necessary for the reader to understand the story.
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evaluate |
Weigh up the strengths and weaknesses.
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climax |
The point in a play, novel, short-story or narrative poem at which the conflict reaches its greatest intensity and then is resolved.
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resolution |
The more pixels, the better the resolution.
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* This sentence was added by a Spellzone user.
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