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    Question: What is the function of genre? Would you classify the ‘Purloined Letter’ a detective fiction or mystery? --------------------------------------------------------------- To categorise texts, allows us to view the world from another perspective, and make sense of the world. This is the function of genre. This allows the responder to class texts even further into sub genres, which have conventions they follow to. Such as Edgar Allen Poe’s ‘The Purloined Letter’ can be classified into the

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    Gothic genre. This is because the atmosphere of mystery and suspense is present in the story, there are common vocabularies of gothic and there are supernatural and inexplicable events. First of all, The Black Cat is associated with the Gothic literature because there is the atmosphere of mystery and suspense. The story contains a threatening mood and a fear throughout. An ancient prophecy as well as omen, portents and visions are contributors to this atmosphere in the work. The mysterious and suspenseful

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    In my opinion a typical murder mystery is one where it keeps you reading in anticipation wanting to know who has committed the well planed out murder, the whole way through. Until the end where the clever detective (who is usually quite an old man, dressed in a smart tweed suit) goes through one by one all of the suspects telling them exactly why they could have committed the murder, but then why they didn't. He then confronts the real murderer who is normally the one everyone least suspects

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    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. The reader wants to find out how much involvement each character has in the story, and if they are important or not. Barrymore is one character who adds mystery to the story. He comes across as suspicious, and

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    Don’t Ask Jack written by Neil Gaiman, Rebecca written by Daphne du Maurier, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving all incorporate Gothic features such as characters, themes, setting and the atmosphere. In all three texts, Don’t Ask Jack, Rebecca and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, the atmosphere is somewhat the same but has some things that are different. In the short story Don’t Ask Jack written by Neil Gaiman there is high sense of creepiness and darkness while the children play in the “attic

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    George Mackay Brown A short story in which an element of mystery plays an important part is "Andrina" by George Mackay Brown, a celebrated author from Orkney. "Andrina" like many of his other works has a spiritual aspect with common themes such as the cycle of the seasons, betrayal, hope and regeneration. "Andrina" is set in Orkney, a perfect location for this tale because of its mystical atmosphere. The haunting, spiritual atmosphere created through the language Geroge Mackay Brown uses adds

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    A language of mysteries Symbolism is the language of the mysteries, as the famous Canadian writer Manly Hall once said. This mystery language can be found today in some particular novels like Catcher in the Rye and Persepolis. Catcher in the Rye was written by J.D. Salinger and was published in 1951. The novel is about Holden Caulfield telling his story from a rest home while he is recuperating from a mental illness. The reader gets a peak in his life and sees how Holden Caulfield, as a teenager

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    “The Cask of Amontillado” used the doubling doppelgangers fiction element of gothic that was uncanny and suspense which includes underground chambers, human remains, and violent revenge. Furthermore, the author also used the element of ‘An atmosphere of mystery and suspense’ which was described as “Its walls had been lined with human remains, piled to the vault overhead, in the fashion of the great catacombs pf Paris.”(546) The story started as a friendly and familiar and turned into bizarre and twisted

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    other contributing factors like weather and atmosphere eventually sets the plot for a storm Calixta and Alcee would remember for a life time. Calixtas’ home is located

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    themes. Hawthorne uses literary devices to propel his story further into speculation of the unknown world. In his essay, Fogle uses examples of irony and symbols of opposites to convey the mystery behind Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown.” Without both ambiguity and clarity, the story would not portray an atmosphere of doubt which is at the core of Hawthorne’s tale. Fogle claims that Hawthorne uses the image of Faith’s ribbon to propel Goodman into fully accepting sin. Fogle claims that “casting aside

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