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    Writing a Horror Story

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    HORROR WRITING WORKSHEET This worksheet will hopefully teach you the basics of writing a scary story – coming up with a frightening idea‚ making your characters come to life and turning their world upside down in a rollercoaster plot! But always remember the first rule of writing: Don’t get bogged down by the rules‚ just play around‚ have fun and write something that you find scary and entertaining! Part 1: Facing Your Nightmares! One of the most important things about writing a horror

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    Europe. He later becomes known as also the most talented ivory exporter in the Congo as well. Kurtz’s death‚ the pinnacle of the novella‚ reveals to those reading that Kurtz is terrified‚ of what exactly is uncertain‚ as he screams aloud “The Horror! The horror!” (144) The most correct interpretation of this statement would be that Kurtz’s upbringing in Europe made him an ignorant and greedy man‚ and thus‚ when he travels to the congo‚ leads him to become a tyrannical leader of both the company (for

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    uniform. A token of remembrance to the days of the past‚ one where no war was fought. That Finch boy‚ back in the barracks they said he really knew how to light up a room. Laughter spilled from that corridor and into the mess hall. His family‚ passed away in a gas leak a few years back. I never really knew how he could keep all that sorrow contained. Some couldn’t even cope with the reality of being dragged into some goddamn war when most of us don’t even know what we’re fighting for. In my ignorant

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    Horror Trailer Evaluation

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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Egg Horror Poem

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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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    "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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