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Duplicate of Gothic ingredients
Duplicate of Gothic ingredients
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#GOTHIC #generic conventions #ingredients #creative writing
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What emotions are often the undertones of the gothic tale?
Depression, loneliness, isolation, melancholy, longing.
Fury, rage and anger sometimes
Giggles, laughter, giddiness.
Happiness, delight, ardour, love, jolliness.
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Why is it important to show rather than tell?
To make your writing more interesting and intriguing
To let the reader guess and infer
It's just easier than explaining
To outright confuse the reader
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The darkness hit my face like a rock
Alliteration
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
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The trees swayed swiftly in the breeze
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Alliteration
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What atmosphere is usually created in gothic writing?
Childish and joyful
outright terror and horror and gory
eerie, unnerving, uncomfortable and subtly creepy
Chirpy and giddy
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Why are some gothic characters often nameless or anonymous?
The writer was just too lazy to name them
The author forgot to name them
The writer couldn't think of a name
It develops mystery
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What is pathetic fallacy?
emotional and mood setting weather
being overly emotional
describing the setting
lying about the state of the weather
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What is the difference between descriptive and narrative writing?
Descriptive paints a picture, narrative tells a story
Both are the same
Narrative paints a picture, descriptive tells a story
One is to inform, the other is to show
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What techniques are often deployed in gothic fiction?
pathetic fallacy
poetic justice
foreshadowing
allusion
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The twisted, finger-like branches of the petrifying trees screamed danger
Personification
Simile
Alliteration
Metaphor
