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"His wedding gift, clasped around my throat. A choker of rubies, 2 inches wide, like an extraordinarily precious slit throat." pg 6
Quote-THE BLOODY CHAMBER

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Onomatopoeia-The formation of a word from a sound associated. 

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Onomatopoeia-The formation of a word from a sound associated. 

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Example- "I floated on my back until horseflies start to buzz around my head." pg 43
-MONKEY BEACH

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Omniscient- Literary tool for writing in 3rd person

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Omniscient- Literary tool for writing in 3rd person

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Personification-Giving human traits to something that's not human.

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Personification-Giving human traits to something that's not human.

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Example- In the story Puss-in-Boots, Carter gives human characteristics to the main character.

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Eden Robinson uses a lot of flashbacks in the story "Monkey Beach".
Example-Lisa talking about Uncle Mick

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Lilies can represent death. They are often at funerals. They are white in this story. They represent her virginity, her innocent, and her youth. Heroine symbolizes all of this.

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Lilies can represent death. They are often at funerals. They are white in this story. They represent her virginity, her innocent, and her youth. Heroine symbolizes all of this.

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"Even when he asked me to marry him, and I said yes still he did not lose that heavy, fleshy composure of his. I know it seem a curious accurate analogy, a man with a flower, but sometimes he seemed to be like a lily. Yes. A lily. Possessed of that strange I'm as calm of a sentient vegetable, like one those cobra-headed funeral lilies whose white sheaths are curled out of flesh as thick and tensely yielding to the touch of vellum."
-THE BLOODY CHAMBER pg 4

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"Deconstruction, in and of itself, is almost dead, but it remains enormous influence on current critical thinking." pg 86
-How To Interpret Literature

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"The cut I make in my left hand is not deep. The skin separates in the bloods wells up and spills down my palm. For a moment, there is no pain, and I wonder if I'm dreaming this than the cut begins to burn, to sear." pg 365
-MONKEY BEACH

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Something about the pouring rain is calming but also can gives me the creeps.

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Something about the pouring rain is calming but also can gives me the creeps.

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When I was a child camping with my sister, it was raining that night. Our parents were at another campsite with friends. My sister and I swore we heard a woman crying in the woods but in a sinister way. Still freaks us out to this day.....

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"I have these dreams. This man comes. He's a little man. Bad things happen. After he comes." pg 225

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"I have these dreams. This man comes. He's a little man. Bad things happen. After he comes." pg 225

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"Sometimes he came dressed like a leprechaun, but that night he had on a strange cedar tunic with little amulets dangling around his neck and waist. His hair was standing straight up like a troll doll's, a wild, electric red. He did a tap dance on my dresser." pg 132
-Monkey Beach

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My mother watched this film one night. My sister and I thought it would be a good idea to sneak downstairs and watch it with her. Never again! I am still a chicken when this movie plays in the month of October....

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"Live people ignore the strange and the unusual. I myself am, the strange and unusual".
Quote- Lydia Deets

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At night, the eyes of the wolves shine like candle flames, yellowish, reddish, but that is because the pupils of their eyes flattened on darkness and catch the light from your lantern to flash it back to you. Red for danger; if a wolf's eyes reflect only moonlight, then they gleam a cold unnatural green mineral or piercing colour. pg 140
Phrase from -THE COMPANY OF WOLVES

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The Shinning
Was discussed briefly in class

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Lace gives me gothic feels

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“One, two, Freddy’s coming for you
Three, four, better lock your door
Five, six, grab your crucifix
Seven, eight, gonna stay up late
Nine, ten, never sleep again.”
-Nightmare on Elm Street

A creepy phrase

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 Oxymoron- Words that contradict each other. 

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 Oxymoron- Words that contradict each other. 

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Example-"Bright swimsuits looked Dull" pg 43
MONKEY BEACH

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"All day, she lies in her coffin in her neglige of blood-stained lace." pg 121
-THE LADY OF THE HOUSE OF LOVE

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In such ways, a feminist interpretation depends not so much on the characters themselves as on the border social contacts that she probably process the characters.
-How To Interpret Literature pg 156

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Gothic twist of Beauty and The Beast By Carter

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Gothic twist of Beauty and The Beast By Carter

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"The flowers in the glass jars were dead, as if nobody had the heart to replace them after she was gone".
Quote-The Courtship of Mr. Lyon

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"Not the key to my heart. Rather, the key to my enfer". 

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"Not the key to my heart. Rather, the key to my enfer". 

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"Promise me this, my whey-faced piano-player; promise me you'll use all the keys on this ring except the last little one I showed you."
Quote-THE BLOODY CHAMBER pg19

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"She sinks her teeth into the neck where an artery throbs with fear; she will drop the deflated skin from which she has extracted all the nourishment with a small cry of both pain and disgust."
-THE LADY OF HE HOUSE OF LOVE

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Remember to use garlic....

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Candles always gives me a chill. Makes me think of gothic horror!

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Candles always gives me a chill. Makes me think of gothic horror!

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Creepy dolls are seen in a lot of horror films or stories

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He's Coming....

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Strange Creatures Live Here

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"New criticism emerged amidst the Great Depression and fervor of political activity from both the left and the right, there was a burgeoning new interest in writing from beyond the traditional boundaries of race in the class that had come to typify college reading list." pg 29
-How To Interpret Literature

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"We all float down here, you will too"
Quote-Unknown

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Castles are Major Themes in Gothic Horror

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Castles are Major Themes in Gothic Horror

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"The Shadow on The Stone" Poem by Thomas Hardy

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"The Shadow on The Stone" Poem by Thomas Hardy

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I went by the Druid stone

That broods in the garden white and lone,

And I stopped and looked at the shifting shadows

That at some moments fall thereon

From the tree hard by with a rhythmic swing,

And they shaped in my imagining

To the shade that a well-known head and shoulders

Threw there when she was gardening.

I thought her behind my back,

Yea, her I long had learned to lack,

And I said: ‘I am sure you are standing behind me,

Though how do you get into this old track?’

And there was no sound but the fall of a leaf

As a sad response; and to keep down grief

I would not turn my head to discover

That there was nothing in my belief.

Yet I wanted to look and see

That nobody stood at the back of me;

But I thought once more: ‘Nay, I’ll not unvision

A shape which, somehow, there may be.’

So I went on softly from the glade,

And left her behind me throwing her shade,

As she were indeed an apparition—

My head unturned lest my dream should fade

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“I laugh maniacally, then take a deep breath and touch my chest expecting a heart to be thumping quickly, impatiently, but there’s nothing there, not even a beat."
-American Psycho

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Nyctophobia-is an extreme fear of the dark.

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Nyctophobia-is an extreme fear of the dark.

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"The eyes of this nocturnal creature enlarge and glow"
-THE BLOODY CHAMBER pg120

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"Just for a moment, just a glimpse of the Tall man, covered in brown fur". "I heard myself screaming and I stood there, not moving". 

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"Just for a moment, just a glimpse of the Tall man, covered in brown fur". "I heard myself screaming and I stood there, not moving". 

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"Did you see them?" Jimmy said
"Who?" said Lisa
"The Sasquatches" Jimmy said

-Monkey Beach pg 16

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"Well I attended Juilliard... I'm a graduate of the Harvard business school. I travel quite extensively. I lived through the Black Plague and had a pretty good time during that...not to mention the fact that you're talking to a dead guy... Now what do you think? You think I'm qualified?"
Quote-Betelgeuse

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"I wish I had a girl as black as that birds feather." pg115 

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"I wish I had a girl as black as that birds feather." pg115 

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-THE SNOW CHILD
Example of a Smilie

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"We're dead, I don't think we have too much to worry about". Adam Maitland 

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"We're dead, I don't think we have too much to worry about". Adam Maitland 

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"What's the good of being a ghost if you can't frighten people away".
Quote-Barbara Maitland

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"Contacting the dead, lesson one. Sleep is an altered state of consciousness. To fall asleep is to fall into a deep, healing trance. In the spectrum of realities, being awake is on one side and being asleep is way, way on the other. To be absorbed in the movie, a game or work is to enter a light trance. Daydreams, prayers or obsessing are heavier trances. Most people entre trances reflexively. To contact the spirit world, you must control the way you enter this state of being that is somewhere between waking and sleeping".  pg 197
-Monkey Beach

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Winter or the colour White is a major theme in the stories we covered. 

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Winter or the colour White is a major theme in the stories we covered. 

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Dreams are desires of the unconscious mind 

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"I couldn't tell you where the voices coming from. It bounced off the mountains in echoed". Lisa says pg 259.

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"I Felt a Funeral, in my Brain" Poem by Emily Dickinson. 

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"I Felt a Funeral, in my Brain" Poem by Emily Dickinson. 

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Just read until the end. That's where the creepiness really sinks in.

"I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,

And Mourners to and fro

Kept treading – treading – till it seemed

That Sense was breaking through –

And when they all were seated,

A Service, like a Drum –

Kept beating – beating – till I thought

My mind was going numb –

And then I heard them lift a Box

And creak across my Soul

With those same Boots of Lead, again,

Then Space – began to toll,

As all the Heavens were a Bell,

And Being, but an Ear,

And I, and Silence, some strange Race,

Wrecked, solitary, here –

And then a Plank in Reason, broke,

And I dropped down, and down –

And hit a World, at every plunge,

And Finished knowing – then –"

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"I wish I had a girl as red as blood" pg 115

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"I wish I had a girl as red as blood" pg 115

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-THE SNOW CHILD

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Seeing one crow is considered an omen of bad luck. Seeing two crows however, means good luck. Three crows mean health, and four crows mean wealth. Yet spotting five crows means sickness is coming, and witnessing six crows means death is nearby. -Patti Wigington

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"I'm dying, Beauty, he said in a crackled whisper of his former purr. Since you left me, I have been sick."

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"I'm dying, Beauty, he said in a crackled whisper of his former purr. Since you left me, I have been sick."

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What is arachnophobia? It is an intense fear of spiders 

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What is arachnophobia? It is an intense fear of spiders 

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Coimetrophobia- The term for a fear of cemeteries.

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Coimetrophobia- The term for a fear of cemeteries.

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Thanatophobia-An intense fear of death or the dying process.

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"The door was equipped with a knocker in the shape of a lions head". 

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"The door was equipped with a knocker in the shape of a lions head". 

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"And, from a distance, through from what distance he could not tell, he heard the most singular sound in the world: a great roaring, as of a beast of prey".
Quote-Courtship of Mr. Lyon