Keywords as a Means of Setting the Mood in a Literary Text (on the Basis of S. Hill’s Novel «The Woman in Black»)
Journal: Izvestia of Smolensk State University
Year: 2025

The article deals with key words fog and mist and their role in S. Hill’s horror novel «The Woman in Black» and examines the ways of creating suspense. Being frequently used with negative evaluative adjectives in one of the first chapters, the noun fog serves as a premonition of disaster. The noun mist and the participles defining it help to create the atmosphere of mystical horror and convey the fear of a person who faces the supernatural. Linguopetic analysis is performed with the help of the