Gothic themes

English

when a person gives their name to something

How is a Byronic hero a complicated character?

placed in a dire predicament by a villain requiring a male hero to achieve her rescue

self-sufficient and needs no-one else to help her

What usually happens to the damsel in Gothic fiction?

Metonymy is a subtype of metaphor, in which something (like rain) is used to stand for something else (like sorrow).

Metonymy is used in Gothic literature to inform the reader that someone is about to die.

Metonymy is when sounds are used to let a reader know something terrible is about to happen.

What is widely considered to be the first Gothic novel?

Which of the following is a typical Gothic setting?

an event that reveals something about the future