key words

Question 1

Psychomachia

Answer 1

– Inner moral struggle (Jekyll’s “warring dualities”).

Question 2

Ontological Horror –

Answer 2

Fear of existence itself (House of Leaves’ endless hallway).

Question 3

The Numinous –

Answer 3

Mysterious divine terror (Dracula’s crucifix repellence).

Question 4

Kafkaesque Dread –

Answer 4

Bureaucratic/absurd horror (Mexican Gothic’s gaslighting).

Question 5

Eschatological Space –

Answer 5

Buildings symbolizing doom (Otranto’s collapsing castle).

Question 6

Heterotopia –

Answer 6

Foucault’s “other” spaces (Hill House’s impossible geometry).

Question 7

Gothic Vertigo –

Answer 7

Dizzying heights/depths (Udolpho’s cliffside terror).

Question 8

Gothic Wound –

Answer 8

Physical scars as moral marks (mark of cain).

Question 9

Carnivalesque –

Answer 9

Bakhtin’s grotesque bodies (The Monk’s rotting Matilda).

Question 10

Posthuman Gothic –

Answer 10

Beyond-human horror (Dorian Gray’s ageless portrait).

Question 10

Gothic Irony –

Answer 10

Audience knows more than characters (Dracula’s reader vs. Mina).

Question 11

Diegetic Layering –

Answer 11

Stories within stories (Wuthering Heights’ nested tales).

Question 12

Anagnorisis –

Answer 12

Tragic realization (Dorian seeing his portrait’s decay).

Question 13

Palimpsest –

Answer 13

Textual erasure/rewriting (House of Leaves’ scratched-out pages)

Question 14

Hysterical Gothic –

Answer 14

Female madness as protest (The Yellow Wallpaper).

Question 15

Queer Gothic –

Answer 15

Subtextual homoeroticism (Dorian Gray’s “influence”).

Question 16

Phallic Mother –

Answer 16

Castrating female power (Bloody Chamber’s murderous bride).

Question 17

Bluebeard Trope –

Answer 17

Dead wives in closets (Rebecca, Bloody Chamber).

Question 18

Demonic Pact –

Answer 18

Faustian bargains (The Monk, Dorian Gray).

Question 19

Sacrificial Victim

Answer 19

– Innocence destroyed (The Italian’s Ellena).

Question 20

Transubstantiation Horror

Answer 20

– Blood/wine as evil (Dracula’s vampiric communion).

Question 20

Apocalyptic Gothic –

Answer 20

End-times imagery (Usher’s “House of Doom”).

Question 21

Haunted Media –

Answer 21

Cursed technology (Ring’s tape, House of Leaves’ book).

Question 22

Trauma Gothic –

Answer 22

Past violence haunting present (Beloved, Mexican Gothic).

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Question 23

Neo-Imperial Gothic –

Answer 23

Colonial guilt (Mexican Gothic’s eugenics plot).

Question 24

Hyperreal Horror –

Answer 24

Simulated terror (Black Mirror’s "Playtest")

Question 25

Gothic Decadence –

Answer 25

Beauty in decay (Dorian Gray’s opium dens).

Question 26

Chronotope –

Answer 26

Time-space collapse (Wuthering Heights’ ghostly timeline).

Question 27

Ekphrastic Horror –

Answer 27

Art coming alive (The Picture of Dorian Gray).

Question 28

Gothic Camp –

Answer 28

Exaggerated melodrama (Carmilla’s sapphic vampires).

Question 29

Aposiopesis

Answer 29

Trailing off mid-sentence "The horror… the horror…" (Heart of Darkness/Dracula)

Question 30

Catachresis

Answer 30

Illogical metaphorical language "The teeth of the wind" (Wuthering Heights)

Question 31

Anadiplosis

Answer 31

Repeating the last word of a clause to start the next "Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate." (Jekyll & Hyde’s descent)

Question 32

Bathos

Answer 32

Anti-climax for humor/irony Northanger Abbey mocking Udolpho’s terror

Question 33

Chiasmus

Answer 33

Reversed parallel structure "Ask not what your country can do for you..." (Dracula’s inverted morality)

Question 34

Epizeuxis

Answer 34

Immediate word repetition for intensity "Never, never, never!" (Wuthering Heights’ Cathy)

Question 35

Hypophora

Answer 35

Posing then answering a question Jane Eyre’s self-interrogations

Question 36

Paralipsis

Answer 36

Omitting key details to unsettle Rebecca’s unnamed narrator

Question 37

Prolepsis

Answer 37

Flashforward (often ominous) The Fall of the House of Usher’s foreshadowing