Assess students' understanding of common symbols and recurring motifs in Gothic literature (late 18th–19th c.). Require identification and definition of key symbols/motifs (ruined architecture, doubles/mirrors, decay/disease, the uncanny/supernatural, night/storms, confinement), analysis of their thematic functions (anxiety, transgression, mortality, gender, social decay), situating these elements in historical/cultural context (Romanticism, Enlightenment anxieties, industrialization), and brief close-reading evidence from representative texts (e.g., Walpole, Radcliffe, Lewis, Shelley, Poe, Stoker). Expect short identifications, a focused analytical paragraph, and a contextual explanation.