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Imagery is very important to Gothic Literature, as it helps to establish mood. What words or actions can an author use to create feelings for the reader of a piece of Gothic Literature?

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Being very descriptive and use emphasizing will help improve the stories smooth yet scariness. Also, you can have figurative language, so the reader can truly feel in the shoes of the character, and the events they experience. Also setting is crucial.

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-It was a dark and stormy night
-*crack*
-Stumbled past the gate
-beware of beast
-creaking stairs
-rugged clothes
-broken floorboards
-shivering

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An author can use figurative language and other discriptive languages to create feelings for the readers as the read the text.

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passionate words that have emotion within them; you want to make the reader care about the character as to have more suspense and fear in the climax

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“A dark and stormy night” “one gloomy day” , the story starts with a sudden death,

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Words that a author could use are ones that help with the theme, making sure to describe objects in either a neutral or negative way, like “moving down the hall, Gus felt a clear feeling of dread.” And actions that make things seem scary or sinister.

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the author could use actions that show a character’s descent into desperation or pain throughout a gothic novel, creating a hopeless mood. they could also use the weather to convey the idea that the mood is meant to be dark and desolate.

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An author can use figurative language and descriptive language when trying to create feelings for the reader of a piece of Gothic Literature.

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Some words that the author can use to create feelings is a dark and stormy night, As the thunder rumbled, or as the ground shook.

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powerful and thrilling words and scary sayings

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Authors use suspense and uncertainty to create feelings of horror in a story. Suspense makes the story scary. Uncertainty makes the story feel mysterious. These two traits create horror in a story and make it scary.

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Words that contain a lot of detail about the setting, sounds, imagery, and others

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Imagery is very important to Gothic Literature, as it helps to establish mood. Some words that an author may use for a piece of Gothic Literature would be "On a dark and stormy night" or "Shivers down my back"

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The author can use specific words or phrases to make the story interesting and scary

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Some actions that an author could use to create feelings for the reader can be sudden knocking, lightening, and banging.

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Some words and actions that authors might use to to create feeling could be creepy, alarming, and intimidating. Some actions are Smiling oddly, or Laughing at odd or inappropriate times.

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well some actions are like running, screaming, and breathing heavily. some words are like dark and stormy, and dark and gloomy.

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authors sometimes use stuttering to show feelings of horror, as well as use emotion. dark, rainy, stormy, Etc. they also use figurative language to show emotion

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authors sometimes use stuttering to show feelings of horror, as well as use emotion. dark, rainy, stormy, Etc. they also use figurative language to show emotion

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The author can use figurative language and other background noises to STRIKE FEAR INTO THE HEARTS OF THE READERS making them want to read more and being scared at each and every word.

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the author can use action words like bam or they can say stuff for noises to set the mood of the story

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Some words  that the author uses to create feelings on a horror story is triggering words that would build up suspense and possibly irony

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An author can use suspense to create the thrill or horror in a story. Suspense is often used to scare the reader and leave them at the edge of their seat.

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Creating a mysterious and horrifying atmosphere is essential to gothic literature. Examples of this are, “A dark and stormy night,” a tree being struck by lightning and falling or signs of bad luck such as a black cat.

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broken down buildings, darkness, storms and harsh weather, creepy forests, gloomy settings

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Gloomy,scary,boom,eeeeeeeeeeek and cry

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An actor can use figurative words and adjectives to create feelings of horror in a story. They can also describe an environment that is very scary.

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Some words or actions an author can use are suspenseful moments like when a monster would be hiding ready to jump out at someone and there would be a branch stepped on making a cracking noise. Or an author can make the weather change like a thunder storm, windy night, or a full moon.

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Words that an author can use to help create feelings for the reader are descriptive words and adjectives to help the reader visualize the story.

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The dark, as well as harsh weather with a rugged environment. Descriptive yet simple words also set the mood. -Daria 80p

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it was a dark and stormy night

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The author can describe every little thing about the setting and weather. They can use words that sound more frightening like "stalked" or "blood-stained".

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The author could use many descriptive words, "as the wind has a quick breezy, i heard a mysterious sound" make the tension rise.

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Authors use words that are very descriptive and describe the setting.

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Imagery’s is important to gothic literature. It makes the story more tense feeling. Like “the door suddenly locked” “dark and stormy night makes the mood scary or tense” castles, storms, creatures, blood, swords, these are all things of imagery.

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the author can use phrases to build up suspense to make the story scary

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The author uses suspense and can use figurative speech and scary enviroments.

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The author should try and describe sounds, views, and visions people or creatures are seeing. The language used should be very descriptive and precise so even without images you can tell exactly whats going on. Suspense with plot twists is also a very effective way to bring up a horrifying or gruesome scene. -Maya Andruchow 80P

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The author can use figurative and descriptive language. Also sudden noises in the location where they are such as thunder, banging, etc.

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Authors can create things such as a hidden characters or objects that isn't obvious at first. For example, they may hint at the reader by using certain descriptive features that most of the time won't make sense in the beginning. Additionally, red herrings can also be used to create false hope. It will add to the mystery and gloom the story possesses.

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The author has to include detail in the story and show us the emotion in the environment, whether, time of day, setting, and plot. The author has to include suspense and include many things that would make the reader scared.

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some words/ actions a author could use are ones that set the mood/theme. As long as he uses them properly it should create a good mood/feeling.

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Many words or actions can make a story scary. Words such as eerie or mysterious. These words tend to make stories more suspenseful or scary. Authors also, offend use figurative language to expand on the horror in Gothic stories.

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there are many ways an author can express a feeling through words in their story. If, for example, it is a chase scene, the author might use words such as "panting" or "terrified" or "dashing", because these are dramatic words that have to do with a scary chase scene. If it's a happy scene you would say words like "smiling" or "delighted" or "ecstatic" because are feeling and action that occur when you're happy.

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the types of words that create the feeling of horror in the story, is the un-expectation. in most stories / movies there's something obvious. such as a haunted doll, a graveyard, etc, is what makes it cliché. things unexpected would be something like " on a warm bright sunny day, ajax went for a walk. the sunshine hit his face like a spotlight" and then something scary happening would be unexpected and more scary / startling

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The author uses many descriptive words to make you feel like you are in the story in a kind of way. Using words like Boom, Crack, slam, creek, or slice.

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Imaginery is important because people can picture the surrounds. Mood is important because the way the characters feel before or after their death.

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Imagery, figurative language, the author can use descriptive language to set the mood, they can use detail. For example, make the setting, plot, characters, environment, scarier and more in depth.

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i think things that create that "scary" feeling in horror books is the vocabulary and figurative language and just how descriptive they are. for exzample i think "it was a bone chilling night" is way better than "it was cold"

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Small details because that's what makes a scary book scary because it talks about like dusty oh books and a body life

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When the author uses onomatopoeias like “oooo”, “creakkkkk”, “wooooosh”, etc. I also think that  cliffhangers sets the mood because it can kinda lead to suspense, also, the description of the objects, places, like “the broken stairs”, the “bloody knife”, or “the dark home”, etc.