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Setting
• Can reflect mood
• Setting may also comment on the character’s state of mind.
• The setting can shape the character’s identities and desires.
• The setting can reveal a character
Short story writing
• Single story line (one plot)
• Only one or two well developed characters
• Usually Explores one theme
• Usually based on a situation or single event
Elements of the Gothic Literature
• The supernatural
• Ancestral curse
• Nightmares
• Cemetery
• Death
• The sublime
• The devil
• Mist
• The haunted house or castle
• Mystery
• Imprisonment
• Ghosts
• The grotesque
• The uncanny(unknown)
• The pursued Protagonist
• The villain-hero or the Byronic hero (Lord Byron’s idea of a protagonist. An example would be Dr. Frankenstein who was both faults and virtues.
Voice
• Voice is the writer’s conversation with the reader. It is what separates a memo from a memoir.
• The best writers bring their own personality into their writing with a strong, distinctive voice. Strong voice is conversational but that doesn’t mean one necessarily writes the way one talks.
• Strong voice is original, passionate and personal.
• It encompasses literary language (formal, grammatical correct, rich vocabulary, complex sentence structure and flowing, to conversational English to jargon, colloquial, idiomatic English or the vernacular (the language or dialect native to a region or country)).
Tone
• Tone is a writer’s choice of connection with the reader.
• The audience determines your tone.
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• Can reflect mood
• Setting may also comment on the character’s state of mind.
• The setting can shape the character’s identities and desires.
• The setting can reveal a character
Short story writing
• Single story line (one plot)
• Only one or two well developed characters
• Usually Explores one theme
• Usually based on a situation or single event
Elements of the Gothic Literature
• The supernatural
• Ancestral curse
• Nightmares
• Cemetery
• Death
• The sublime
• The devil
• Mist
• The haunted house or castle
• Mystery
• Imprisonment
• Ghosts
• The grotesque
• The uncanny(unknown)
• The pursued Protagonist
• The villain-hero or the Byronic hero (Lord Byron’s idea of a protagonist. An example would be Dr. Frankenstein who was both faults and virtues.
Voice
• Voice is the writer’s conversation with the reader. It is what separates a memo from a memoir.
• The best writers bring their own personality into their writing with a strong, distinctive voice. Strong voice is conversational but that doesn’t mean one necessarily writes the way one talks.
• Strong voice is original, passionate and personal.
• It encompasses literary language (formal, grammatical correct, rich vocabulary, complex sentence structure and flowing, to conversational English to jargon, colloquial, idiomatic English or the vernacular (the language or dialect native to a region or country)).
Tone
• Tone is a writer’s choice of connection with the reader.
• The audience determines your tone.
.... will add more as we progress in the unit...