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Stevenson used the contemporary setting of Victorian London to write his gothic horror novel. The streets with the gas lamps were the perfect setting following the true horrific stories of Jack the Ripper. He refers to Mr Hyde well as he wanders the streets of London not knowing who he’s going to meet. The elements in gothic horror include irony, movement, time, senses, horrific

In the story “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” the author Conan Doyle portrays many different narrative techniques. He uses these techniques to provide meaning for the audience as well as help them visualize the situation that was being described. The different techniques used are narrative discourse, suspense, conflict, close, and focalization in his story. Narrative discourses are events, to describe a series of events that are contingent one on another. Typically focuses on one or more performers of actions. Personal experience can influence narrative discourse due to the explaining of significant events in the life of the narrator. Narrative discourse is made up of exposition/ setting, developing conflict, climax, final suspense, and conclusion. The narrative discourse is being portrait in the story by Sherlock trying to find the mystery. Helen Stoner goes to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson for help on figuring out the mystery of her sister’s death, and they both investigate. It all begins with the renovation that was done to the room. Holmes arrived to Dr. Grimesby Roylott’s home in order to investigate the noise that his daughter seemed to be hearing from the bedroom that the sister was killed in. Holmes describes the room “very strange” he found the ventilator open into another room as well as the bell-rope. The ventilator was the small opening between two rooms as well as the bed was fastened to the floor. “A ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who

In Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes the Hound of the Baskervilles, weather and seasons convey a motif of new beginnings.

“Mary, however, is not alone among the “fog people” – the three men also have their reasons for withdrawing into night” (Brustein 1021). Each of these men is haunted by his individual past and this

the weather is mentioned throughout the book as a sort of catalyst in the process of the reader noticing mood the weather is warm and dry before shifting to coldness and darkness with the setting of the sun much like the crowd's fervor people became numb opted for warm rooms and warm suppers that the first snow of the year would likely bring

1. “Mary Karr presents her childhood in an almost unbroken panorama. Mine is a fogged-out landscape from which occasional memories appear like isolated trees  . . . . the kind that look as if they might like to grab and eat you.”

In the short story “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe tell of a man going to great extents to get revenge. Montresor holds a grudge against Fortunato because he has insulted him several times causing pain inside him to form and builds up day by day. Fortunato has a talent of tasting wine but needs to find a way not to express his feelings that much. Throughout the story, Edgar Allan Poe creates events in which he builds suspense. The author keeps his readers on their feel by having a surprise at every corner. Edgar Allan Poe demonstrates in “The Cask of Amontillado” how he uses the conflict to show the build of suspense, change of mood of the reader, develop the theme, reflect a change in the character/characters.

Dickens creates an atmosphere of mystery and danger by keeping the reader in suspense and on edge. He does so through his abundance of details in his descriptions. He evokes emotions that the reader wouldn’t otherwise feel unless they were there. Dickens uses imagery to make the reader feel as though they are in the novel with the other characters, making it tangible. He increases the tension in the chapter using heavy mist, which is used to block the reader’s vision, so they cannot tell what is coming next. The setting also played a role in creating such a suspenseful mood. It is a late night in November, so it is particularly dark and cold outside. The Dover mail coach is traveling up a hill called Shooter’s Hill, which leads the reader to know that the surroundings are dangerous and to think that someone might get shot.

It was the summer of 1953. The twenty-second of June, and Howard had dragged me to the Scottish moors. I hadn’t set foot in the British Isles since the end of the war, but the damp summer breeze didn’t stir any particular sense of homecoming in my breast.

Throughout mystery genre books there is a feeling given off to the readers. Feelings that can be stimulated by what is happening or even the kind of people that are around in a specific scene. However the most influential is the geographical setting of the story. This allows the author to create suspense and allow the readers to think or react in any way from feeling fear to wanting to know more about the situation. All of this is done by the fact that the geographical setting can create the mood, imagery and as stated before suspense. One series of mysterious stories that use the geographical setting to play a role in the mysterious feeling is “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” by Arthur Conan Doyle. Arthur Conan Doyle uses the setting to

How is a sense of mystery created in ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles? The Hound of the Baskervilles is a famous play by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Mystery is created in many ways, such as through the settings and the plot. One way in which mystery is created is through the characters.

Prompt- using your selected adventures of sherlock holmes story analyze 3 literary devices/techniques sen in the story and discuss how doyle choices create a memorable mystery.

Watt analyzes that Doyle’s heavy use of literary devices could have been influenced by spiritualism, which is safe to assume considering Doyle’s relations with philosophy. Gothic undertones, and the influence of the strict Victorian era enhances a lurid mood in some of Doyle’s stories (Howard “GALE Novels for Students” ). His overall pleasurable use of metaphor, simile, suspense, and foreshadowing have contributed greatly to the excellent development of his plot lines and story

In his third of four novels The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle uses Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson, to demonstrate the theme of practical control opposed to supernatural power; he does this symbolically through British culture by discovering, investigating, and resolving mysteries.

This extract from Lanark ,written by Alasdair Gray, is a highly evocative piece of narrative prose. Set within a church in Lenzies, Glasgow, the excerpt illustrates the loss of love and theloss of self-belief which are inextricably intertwined for the character Duncan Thaw. Writtenin a post-modern style, it is also representative of the subjectivity of perception and its abilityto change with the passage of time. Duncan is forced to reflect upon his experiences as he isvisited by haunting representations of his past, in the form of two characters: Marjory and theunnamed man.The extract begins by immediately evoking a sense of atmosphere: µThe afternoon darkenedearly¶. The