Setting has a big impact on the feel of a story because it influences the tone and mood of the narrative. In gothic literature:
stories are often set in run-down castles and buildings with secret rooms that have something spooky about them (many stories are already linked to castles and old houses, so rumours of them being haunted, for example, carry over)
ruined buildings may be seen as sinister or pleasingly melancholy
crypts, dungeons, and catacombs are spooky and associated with death and being forgotten, and
lighting, especially dim, failing light, is very important since it fits in with the (usual) darkness of the story.
The environment can be used to mirror the story or emphasize the bad things that are happening (in Frankenstein, for example, the various storms that take place throughout the story make the mood heavier and reflect how the main character, Victor Frankenstein, feels).
Depending on all sorts of visual imagery and description, the story's atmosphere can continually suggest horror and dread, constantly foreshadowing something horrible and making the reader on edge.
An oxymoron is a figure of speech that combines two seemingly contradictory or opposite ideas to create a certain rhetorical or poetic effect and reveal a deeper truth. Generally, the ideas will come as two separate words placed side by side. The most common type of oxymoron is an adjective followed by a noun.
probaly conformity the girls were all dancing I'm the woods alone doing something which they weren't supposed to, therefore the girls played it up as witch craft so they wouldn't get into trouble, the faint is clearly a part of this act, betty was in fear of her uncle because it would bring shame and trouble to her name. This is most likely an effort for the girls to conform into society without being seen as vile heathens in society.
