Assertion: castle's novel | /r/CapableOf | imitate the formula of otranto
Facets:
value: directly
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: After a number of other novels were added to the budding Gothic genre, the teenage author Matthew Lewis published The Monk, a novel that directly imitated the formula of Otranto, but took it to such an extreme that some have interpreted the novel as parody.