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The Pit and the Pendulum Edgar Allen Poe Get your paper read to create a Note Cloud Write the words Gothic Literature in large letters Add these words using smaller letters Characters Setting ID: 597103

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Exploring Gothic LiteratureThe Pit and the Pendulum

Edgar Allen Poe

Get your paper read to create a Note Cloud:

Write the words Gothic Literature in large letters.

Add these words using smaller letters:

Characters

Setting

Plot

Supernaturals

Famous works

The dark side of RomanticismSlide2

Write “Elements of Gothic Literature” on your paper.

Take notes as you watch the videos.

Write a summary explaining all of the elements of Gothic Literature. Slide3

Let’s Take a Look at the Assignments!Slide4

Gothic Fiction:Horror and RomanceSinister SettingsExtreme landscapes, decaying castles, hazy forestsElements of supernatural

Stimulation of fear, horror, macabre (grisly, gruesome, morbid)Villains, tyrants, maniacsMadwoman, femme fatales, persecuted maidensByronic heroesSlide5

MetonymyIt is a figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated. The pen is mightier than the sword. (Pen refers to written words and sword to military force.)

The Oval Office was busy in work. (“The Oval Office” is a metonymy as it stands for people at work in the office.)Let me give you a hand. (Hand means help.)Slide6

Synesthesia When one kind of sensory stimulus evokes the subjective experience of another.We tasted the salty grin on the trickster's face.

The sight of red ants makes you itchy. Red Hot Chili Peppers’ song title, “Taste the Pain” Slide7

Your Task is to Create a Gothic Tale

ExpositionSlide8

ExpositionThe exposition is the part of the story that sets the stage for the drama to follow.It introduces the theme, setting, characters, and circumstances at the beginning of the story.

Consider these for a Gothic Tale:a setting in a castle, ancestral family home, vault or cryptsupernatural beings - monsters, vampires, ghosts, werewolves, and such

a person, particularly a damsel (or 2, or 3!) in distressan atmosphere of suspense and/or terrorwomen threatened by tyrannical male/patriarchal figuresan exotic locale, often in a country other than that of the story's origin.Slide9

ConflictThe conflict is the struggle between the characters in the story.In a Gothic Tale consider these:

a vendetta or vengeance perpetrated against the protagonist and/or his/her family by the antagonistan unrequited love, or illicit love affair or romancean ancient prophecy foretelling the doom of the protagonist and/or his/her family

Insanity exploredSlide10

Rising ActionThe rising action is a series of events building toward the point of greatest interest.These events begin immediately after the exposition of the story and builds up to the climax.

For your Gothic Tale, consider plot twists that the reader did not see coming.Slide11

ClimaxThe climax is the apex of the story, where the ‘battle’ will take place. All of the drama and conflict has led to this point where it is determined if the leading character will succeed or fail.Slide12

Falling ActionThe falling action occurs right after the climax. It is what happens after the main problem of the story has been solved.

Consider this, what are the direct effects of the climax?The falling action gives the reader satisfaction of the whole story; knowing what happened next.Slide13

ResolutionThe resolution ties up any loose ends that may be left in the story. Sometimes the rising action and the resolution mix together in a plot.