that are similar to yours in any way. what are the similarities? 5. What are some of the key characteristic effects of horror that you wanted to incorporate into your trailer: Clue ... psychological effect on audience / creating fear / adrenalin / tension - mention teen brain 6. According to the Uses and gratifications theory? What are the pleasures available to the horror audience? Clue ... diversion = escape from normal life thrills such as fear identity - you find out about yourself‚ as an
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COMPARE AND CONTRAST “DISABLED” BY WILFRED OWEN AND “OUT‚ OUT-”BY ROBERT FROST. IN WHAT WAYS DO THEY EXPLORE THE THEME OF PAIN AND SUFFERING? These two poems are very different in terms of syntax‚ structure and actions‚ but the tone is the same in each. Both poems make us pity the young boys who were forced to grow up before their time‚ not understanding the possible consequences of their actions. They are connected in this way despite being thrown out of life differently (and because of different
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According to Fobes.com‚ "Sinister” was the number one horror film within the last five years and “…the most terrifying‚ disturbing‚ well-acted‚ perfectly paced horror film…” (Hughes‚ The Top 10 Horror Films Of The Last Five Years). There are two different categories of horror stories. The first category is fiction. This category was created to relate to the person reading‚ make it something they believe could happen to them. The second category is psychological. This category was created to get the
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SECRET LIFE OF BEES – REVISION NOTES Central Characters Lily Melissa Owens Lily is a fourteen-year-old girl whose mother died when she was four years old‚ an accident that Lily feels she was responsible for. She dresses in clothes she made in home economics. She is not a popular person in school. She has jet-black hair that resembles a nest of cowlicks‚ no chin‚ Sophia Loren eyes and an inferiority complex. She takes to picking scabs on her body and biting the flesh around her fingernails
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Wilfred Owen‚ a Soldier Poet who spent time in several military hospitals after being diagnosed with neurasthenia‚ wrote the poem "Disabled" while at Craiglockhart Hospital‚ after meeting Seigfried "Mad Jack" Sassoon. A look at Owen’s work shows that all of his famed war poems came after the meeting with Sassoon in August 1917 (Childs 49). In a statement on the effect the Sassoon meeting had on Owen’s poetry‚ Professor Peter Childs explains it was after the late-summer meeting that Owen began to
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written during the great war‚ both poem had opposing view points. Both Wilfred Owen and Jessie Pope were inspired to write due to the war but Wilfred Owen fought in the western front while Jessie Pope stayed in the comfort of the home front. ’Who’s for the Game’ gave young men false impressions of war while ’Dulce et Decorum Est’ showed readers the grim realities of war. Jessie Pope’s ’Who’s for the Game was written to recruit young men into the army. The poem made war sound like a fun sport game
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To get the right feel of a poem or the overall theme‚ you must be able to understand what the poet is trying to reveal to you. Luckily I understood very well what the poet was trying to communicate when I read “egg horror poem”‚ by Laurel Winter. I believe that Winter wanted to make the reader feel as if they were one of the eggs‚ feeling all of the suspenseful emotions that come with being an egg‚ she does this by using imagery words‚ voice‚ and her ideas. This involves making me feel like I am
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Wilfred Owen’s Anthem for a Doomed Youth is exactly that‚ an anthem ( a solemn song) to commemorate the innocent youth‚ whose lives were taken to soon by war. By using the word anthem‚ he calls to mind the glory and honor of a national anthem‚ however; he goes on to explain that there is no honor or glory in death‚ pairing the words doomed and youth together creates so much sorrow as well‚ it provides a woeful impression as it foretells of young people having no hope. Written in sonnet form‚ it is
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"Dulce et Decorum Est" is a short‚ four stanza poem written by British soldier and poet Wilfred Owen. Dulce describes the horrors of war as illustrated by the description of weary soldiers and the scene of a mustard gas attack as illustrated in the second stanza. Sadly‚ this poem was perhaps a bit prophetic as Owen died in action in 1918 at the age of 25‚ shortly after penning it‚ while attempting to lead his men across the Sambre canal at Ors. The phrase‚ Dulce et Decorum Est is translated
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The term Gothic is significant for the understanding of the origins and development of the horror genre. Both of these genres differ‚ whilst Gothic literature is the text that explores the frightening extremes in mankind‚ horror focuses more on the unknown. The Gothic horror genre has changed over time and retains importance because it is the antecedent of the horror genre. Factors such as the definition of the word Gothic‚ the archetypes of the genre‚ and its social and historical contexts‚ have
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