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UNIT 3 : GOTHIC LITERATURE LANGUAGE WORKSHOP TASK 1

Compétence travaillée :
-Mobiliser les outils pour écrire, corriger, modifier son écrit

The vocabulary of the Gothic. The constant use of the appropriate vocabulary set creates and
sustains the atmosphere of the Gothic. Using the right words maintains the dark-and-stimulated
feel that defines the Gothic. Here as an example are some of the words (in several categories)
that help make up the vocabulary of the Gothic in The Castle of Otranto:

Enormous ; amazement ; agony ; dread ; concern ; diabolical ; spectre ; shaded ; anger ;

precipitately ; affliction ; miracle ; shocking ; wonder ; rage ; provoked ; astonished ;

astonishment ;vision ; strangeness ; dismal ; breathless ; sorcerer ; omens ; terrible ; fright ;

grief ; terror ; terrified ; alarm ; enchantement ; darkness ; thunderstruck ; spirits ;
preternatural ; suddenly ; surprise ; surprised ; hastened ; choler ; gigantic ; frightened ;

raving ; resentment ; black ; impatience ; necromancer ; temper ;sorrow ; prophecy ; wrath ;

tears ; melancholy ; fearing ; frantic ; impatiently ; dismay ; dark ; impatient ; horror ;

lamentable ; apprehensions ; apprehensive ; hastily ; ominous ; furious ; fury ; anguish ; panic ;

sadly ; impetuously ; shaded ; night ; afflicted ; commiseration ; anxious ; tremendous ; ghost ;

secret ; enraged ; mournfully ; running ; vast ; unhappy ; shrieks ; magician ; staring ; prodigy ;

miserable ; incense ; incensed ; dread ; dreaded ; talisman ; wrathful ; wrathfully ; sympathy ;

wretch ; scared ; haunted ; giant ; flight ; despair ; goblins ; angrily ; dreading ; horrid ;

infernal ; magic ; hopeless ; sudden ;

Classified them into the following categories : (leave 4 lines per category)

Mystery

Fear, Terror, or
Sorrow

Surprise

Haste

Anger

Largeness

Darkness