Gothic glossary

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Across
  1. 2. A category of literature with similar features.
  2. 3. setting A location with eerie, mysterious, or supernatural qualities.
  3. 5. Dark, depressing, or lacking light.
  4. 8. hero A dark, brooding, flawed protagonist.
  5. 9. A deep fear or apprehension.
  6. 12. Deep sadness or sorrow.
  7. 13. Suggesting something bad will happen.
  8. 18. narrator A storyteller whose perspective is distorted or biased.
  9. 21. The belief that fate controls human destiny.
  10. 22. A feeling of tension or uncertainty.
  11. 23. A character is physically or mentally cut off from others.
  12. 24. A feeling of coming danger.
Down
  1. 1. Involves ghosts, curses, or unexplainable events.
  2. 2. Distorted, bizarre, or repulsively ugly.
  3. 4. Hints or clues about future events.
  4. 5. villain A mysterious, sinister, or supernatural antagonist.
  5. 6. irony When the audience knows something the characters do not.
  6. 7. The central idea or message in a story.
  7. 10. An object, person, or place that represents a deeper meaning.
  8. 11. Focuses on death, decay, and the grotesque.
  9. 14. A repeated symbol, idea, or theme in a text.
  10. 15. Evil or menacing.
  11. 16. Descriptive language appealing to the senses.
  12. 17. Psychological instability, often leading to unreliable narration.
  13. 19. Shockingly vivid, often unnatural.
  14. 20. Strange and unsettling.