Question 1

What famous American writers of the 20th and 21st centuries owe their literary form of choice to the American Gothics?

Accepted Answer

Any writers who create fiction that falls into the horror genre, including novelists like Stephen King and filmmakers like Alfred Hitchcock and M. Night Shyamalan

Question 2

How can you recognize an example of textual ambuiguity

Accepted Answer

If you're not sure how an author feels about a particular character, event, or outcome, it may be because the writer is being deliberately ambiguous. In other words, the author's opinion on the topic is not shared explicitly in the text, and you as the reader are supposed to make up your own mind.

Question 3

Which phrase describes the writing of the American Gothics rather than the American Romantics

Accepted Answer

focused on the darker, more destructive aspects of human nature

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