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Knowledge Base: English Gothic Poetry and Prose Year 8 | Autumn Term 1
The Gothic: Content and Context
1.1
Victorian era (1837-1901)
Produced some of the most well-known examples of gothic horror.
1.2
The Romantics (1798-1837)
A European movement within art and literature that sought a simpler way of life, valuing the individual, emotions and nature over rationality and industrialisation.
1.3
The Gothic
A genre of literature having a prevailing atmosphere of mystery and terror.
1.4
Set in a haunted castle or house
Settings often include bleak, deathly graveyards or abandoned buildings or castles.
1.5
A burdened male protagonist
Aristocratic, moody, solitary, and nursing a guilty secret, this conflicted male figure surfaces everywhere in Gothic fiction.
1.6
A ghost/monster or supernatural being
Supernatural or grotesque creatures, ranging from vampires, devils, ghosts, monsters and demons, to evil spirits, the possessed, and werewolves.
Literary and Poetic Techniques
2.1
enjambment
The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.
2.2
caesura
A pause in a line that is formed by the rhythms of natural speech rather than meter.
2.3 assonance Rhyme/repetition of stressed vowel sounds e.g 'patience always pays’.
2.4
pathetic fallacy
Attribution of human emotion to things found in nature (often weather) e.g. 'I wandered lonely as a cloud'.
2.5
stanza
A group of poetic lines corresponding to paragraphs in prose; the meters and rhymes are usually repeating or systematic.
2.6
rhyme
The repetition of identical concluding syllables in different words, most often at the ends of lines. Example: June--moon.
2.7 couplet Two successive rhyming lines.
2.8
supernatural
Events or beings which are above nature and not explained by scientific or natural reasoning.
Vocabulary
Vocabulary Definition Morphology and etymology Synonyms and similar words
3.1
ominous
Adjective – giving the worrying impression that something bad is going to happen.
“there were ominous dark clouds gathering overhead”
From the Latin ‘ominous’ meaning “full of foreboding”.
threatening menacing worrying portentous
3.2
oppressive
Adjective – inflicting harsh treatment.
“they are fighting against the oppressive laws”
The suffix ‘-ive’ changes nouns and verbs into adjectives. It adds the meaning “tending” to or “doing” or “being”.
tyrannical overbearing harsh brutal
3.3
trepidation
Noun – a feeling of fear or anxiety about something that may happen.
“the men set off in fear and trepidation”
The suffix ‘–tion’ or ‘-ion’ means “state of”, “act of” or “result of”.
The suffix is used to form nouns meaning “the action of (a verb)” or “the result of (a verb)”.
fear
anxiety apprehension foreboding
3.4
inescapable
Adjective – Unable to be avoided.
“they came to the inescapable conclusion that he was responsible”
Prefix ‘in-’
English has two prefixes ‘in-’. One means “in”; the other means “no, not”.
inevitable inexorable indisputable undeniable
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