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Gothic
elements in
literature
- Setting in a castle
- Atmosphere of mystery and suspense
- Ancient prophesy
- Omens, portents and visions
- Supernatural or inexplicable events
- High emotion
- Women in distress, threatened by a tyrannical male
- Metonymy of horror
- Metonymy is a subtype of metaphor,
in which something like rain stands
for something like sorrow
- Examples
- Wind, especially howling
- Doors on rusty hinges
- Footsteps approaching
- Lights in abandoned rooms
- Characters trapped in a room
- Ruins of buildings
- Thunder and lightining
- Rain, especially blowing
- Sights, moans, howls, eerie sounds
- Clanking chains
- Gusts of wind blowing out lights
- Doors suddenly slamming shut
- Baying of distant dogs/wolves
- Crazed laughter
- Wind, especially howling
- Metonymy is a subtype of metaphor,
in which something like rain stands
for something like sorrow
- Vocabulary of Gothic
- Mystery
- Fear, terror, or sorrow
- Suprise
- Haste
- Anger
- Largeness
- Darkness
- Mystery
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