American Gothic Vocabulary

American gothic

Sub genre that explores the dark psychological and supernatural aspects of American culture and society

Allusions

A popular reference to a person place thing or event

Mood

Feeling or atmosphere that a reader creates

Style

A basic and distinctive mode of expression

Situational irony

An outcome that turns out to be different from what was expected

Verbal irony

A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant

Dramatic irony

When a reader is aware of something that a character isn’t

Main idea

The literal topic being discussed

Thesis statement

One sentence that summarized the main point of an essay supported by evidence

Symbol

A thing that represents or stand for something else especially representing something abstract

Genre

A category or type of literature of art music etc characterized by a particular form style or content

Motif

A recurring bf theme subject or idea

Foreshadow

A narrative device that hints at coming events

Unreliable narrator

A narrator whose account of event appears to be faulty misleadingly biased

Inference

A conclusion researched on the basis of evidence and reasoning