ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

GOTHIC LITERATURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
‘An implication or feeling that something bad will happen later in the story’-Which Gothic feature is this the definition for?
A
Foreshadowing
B
Tension
C
Foreboding
D
Fear
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -a strong inner feeling or notion of a future misfortune, evil, etc.; presentiment.

Detailed explanation-2: -forebodings; forebodingly. When you get a foreboding, you get a sense that something bad is going to happen. A foreboding is a foretelling, a sign or a glimpse, that “something wicked this way comes”-or might come. If something doesn’t “bode” well, it means that the future doesn’t look good.

Detailed explanation-3: -: to have an inward conviction of (something, such as a coming ill or misfortune) … she looked eagerly in his face, not quick to forebode evil, but unavoidably conscious that the state of the family had changed …

Detailed explanation-4: -: the act of one who forebodes. also : an omen, prediction, or presentiment especially of coming evil : portent. It seems that her forebodings were justified. foreboding.

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