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Elements of the Supernatural
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| Creepy Setting | The action often takes place somewhere that is seemingly abandoned or in film, camera angles will be unusual to increase darkness and shadows. Also, it may include staircases, trap or secret doors, secret rooms or alcoves, or a graveyard nearby. |
| The Unknown Event | Could be unknown parentage, a disappearance, or some other unexplained event (often an unusual murder). |
| An Ancient Prophecy or Legend | It is usually obscure, partial, or in some other way confusing. "What could it mean?" |
| Omens, Portents, and Visions | A character may have a dream vision, or some phenomenon may be seen as a portent of coming events, or a character may see a shadowy figure (as in a waking dream). |
| The Inexplicable Event | examples are: ghosts or giants, inanimate objects coming to life, a gust of wind blows (indoors), a door suddenly slams shut, etc. In some stories, these are given an explanation, but it is still not in the realm of the possible. |
| High, even overwrought emotion | The characters are often overcome by anger, sorrow, surprise, and especially terror. Crying and/or emotional speeches are frequent; breathlessness and panic are common (as in screaming). |
| The Woman in distress | This is an appeal to the sympathy of the reader/viewer; these characters often face events that leave them alone, pensive, and/or oppressed (fainting is common). |
| The Tyrannical Male figure | One or more of these characters have the power as demon, king, father, guardian, lord of the manor, etc. |
| Metonymy of gloom and horror | is a subtype of metaphor in which something (like rain) is used to stand for something else (like sorrow). This is why it is often raining in funeral scenes. Others include howling wind, rusty hinges, footsteps, thunder, lightning, door slamming, etc. |
| Vocabulary of the Gothic | Having the characters use the right words, maintains the dark and stimulated feeling. Some examples are: infernal, portent, prodigy, wrath, spirits, dread, mournful, wrathful, hopeless, lamentable, vast, dismal, agony, wretched, tomb, hastened, etc. |
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Kings Park High School |
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