Gothic Lit Practice

Match the following Elements to their definitions

• Mysterious Atmosphere

• The writing often creates a mood that is “spooky”

• The Castle

• Often appears in a disturbing dream from one of the main characters

• Ancient Prophecy

• Events or happenings that have no logical explanation

• The Supernatural

• A setting that involves an isolated or an abandoned location

• Omens and Visions

• Is typically a foretelling of something connected to the location. (i.e. “It’s said that he haunts these halls to this day.”)

Match the following

• A Powerful or Tyrannical male

• Characters are overcome by surprise, sorrow, or especially terror

• Gothic Vocab.

• Leaked in from the “romanticism” movement that came before that of the Gothic.

• Women in Distress

• Often kings or authorities of some kind who ask way to much of those around them.

• Romance

• Any words that create a dark or mysterious mood are a hallmark of this genre

• Extreme Emotion

• The Female who is facing difficulties that leave them vulnerable. Think the “fainting woman after something scary happened. Yes, it’s a lazy stereotype

“With these retired to the deep seclusion of one of his castellated abbeys.” - The Masque of the Red Death

What Gothic Element is this an example of?

• The Castle

• Tyrannical Male

• Gothic Vocab.

• Mysterious Atmosphere

"Its pendulum swung to and fro with a dull, heavy, monotonous clang; and when the minute-hand made the circuit of the face, and the hour was to be stricken, there came from the brazen lungs of the clock a sound which was clear and loud and deep and exceedingly musical, but of so peculiar a note and emphasis that, at each lapse of an hour, the musicians of the orchestra were constrained to pause, momentarily, in their performance, to harken to the sound..." -The Masque of the Red Death

What Gothic element is this an example of?

• The Castle

• Omens and Visions

• Mysterious Atmosphere

• Ancient Prophecy

“Pestilence, hideous, horror, blood-tinted panes, fatal…” - The Masque of the Red Death

What Gothic element is this an example of?

• Extreme Emotion

• Gothic Vocab.

• Mysterious Atmosphere

• The Supernatural

• “These three old gentlemen… were early lovers of the Widow Wycherly…” - Dr. Heidegger's Experiment

• What Gothic element is this an example of?

• Tyrannical Male

• Woman in Distress

• Ancient Prophecy

• Romance

• “If all stories were true, Dr. Heidegger’s study must have been a very curious place…” -Dr. Heidegger's Experiment

• What Gothic element is this an example of?

• Ancient Prophecy

• Omens and Visions

• Tyrannical Male

• Mysterious Atmosphere

"I approached and saw, as if graven in bas-relief upon the white surface, the figure of a gigantic cat. The impression was given with an accuracy truly marvelous. There was a rope about the animal's neck." - The Black Cat

What Gothic element is this an example of?

• Omens and Visions

• Extreme Emotion

• The Supernatural

• Mysterious Atmosphere

"The moodiness of my usual temper increased to hatred of all things and of all mankind; while, from the sudden, frequent, and ungovernable outbursts of a fury to which I now blindly abandoned myself, my uncomplaining wife, alas! was the most usual and the most patient of sufferers." - The Black Cat

What Gothic Element is this an example of?

• Woman in Distress

• Gothic Vocab.

• The Castle

• Ancient Prophecy

"And then came, as if to my final and irrevocable overthrow, the spirit of PERVERSENESS... One morning, in cool blood, I slipped a noose about its neck and hung it to the limb of a tree -- hung it with the tears streaming from my eyes, and with the bitterest remorse at my heart -- hung it because I knew that it had loved me, and because I felt it had given me no reason of offense -- hung it because I knew that in so doing I was committing a sin -- a deadly sin that would so jeopardize my immortal soul as to place it -- if such a thing were possible -- even beyond the reach of the infinite mercy of the Most Merciful and Most Terrible God." - The Black Cat

What Gothic element is this an example of?

• Extreme Emotion

• Ancient Prophecy

• Omens and Visions

• Mysterious Atmosphere