Horror Genre
Sub-genres in Horror
Moral Allegory
Description
Fantasy
Description
Fictional setting or fictional characters.
Psychological
Description
Mix with the thoughts or mental health of characters.
Reading Strategies
Visualizing
This is when...
Able to imagine how the setting and characters could be.
Skimming
This is when....
Reading fast to understand the text and be able to move to another text faster.
Narrative POV
First Person
Describe
As if you were the character and is experiencing everything used pronouns "I" or "we".
Second Person
Third Person Limited
Third Person Omniscient
Film vs. Print in Horror
Your reflection
Books give more in depth in the story while film give the Important things and adds the scenes (gore) and also the audio, books can twist your mind while can give you the experience.
Freud believed that people are drawn to horror because of catharsis. Catharsis mean....
The Psychology of Horror
Sigmund Freud
Stephen King on Fear
King believed that people are drawn to horror because....
Physiology of Fear
This theory believes that people are drawn to horror because...
Archetypes
Plot Archetype
Definition of plot archetype
Example
Setting Archetype
Over coming the monster
Definition of setting archetype
A dangerous lonely grey place
Character Archetype
The survivor
The forest
Short Stories
The Lottery
concerns the dangers of blindly following traditions.
3
The Tell Tale Heart
I Am the Doorway
Provide a description for only the story you read