Horror Vocabulary

Match the following

• Hints about what will happen next

• Theme

• The subject the story is about

• Topic

• A feeling of excitement or anxiety

• Foreshadowing

• A story's deeper meaning

• Predict

• What you guess will happen next

• Suspense

Dramatic Irony is...

• Dramatic irony is when the audience is unaware of something that the characters in the story know.
• Dramatic irony is a type of comedy where the audience laughs at the characters' ignorance.
• Dramatic irony is a literary device where the audience knows something that the characters in the story do not.
• Dramatic irony is a technique used in poetry to create suspense.

Technique means...

• Procedure or process
• Equipment or tool
• Skill or ability
• Method or way of doing something

Summary means...

• offering a comprehensive review
• providing a lengthy explanation
• giving a detailed analysis
• providing a short statement of the main ideas

Mood is...

• a type of essay

• a type of scary story

• the way a place, event, or story makes you feel

• a form of description

The study of the mind and how it influences behavior is...

• Biology
• Chemistry
• Physics
• Psychology

Something that happens over and over, especially something bad is...

• topic

• technique

• unique
• repetition