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Horror 1 Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| exposition | the background information in a story |
| motivation | a goal someone is pursuing that is the reason for their actions |
| plot twist | a surprising turn in the story that changes your understanding of characters or events |
| imagery | visually descriptive language |
| content warning | a warning before a person reads a story or watches a movie about what sort of things are in it |
| body horror | scary things that have to do with the body like gore, graphic injuries, mutation, internal organs, and decay. |
| isolation | being alone |
| supernatural | things not explained by science like magic, mythical creatures, spirits, and curses |
| uncanny valley | when something is close to human but not quite human and that makes it creepy |
| foreshadowing | when an author includes details that hint or suggest what will happen later in the story |
| unreliable narrator | a character whose perspective and account of events in a story cannot be fully trusted, either because they are lying or because they are insane. |
| sympathetic villain | a character who is a villain, but the author shows us their pain and humanity in a way that makes us understand them |
Created by:
Alyssa Figueredo