Genre
Psychoanalysis; literary criticism
Setting and Context
Narrator and Point of View
Tone and Mood
Protagonist and Antagonist
Major Conflict
Climax
Foreshadowing
Understatement
Allusions
Numerous allusions to works of literature, especially 19th-century German literature (as explained in the section on Freud and Literature)
Imagery
Paradox
The uncanny itself is fundamentally a kind of paradoxical feeling: familiarity combined with fear, knowledge combined with mystery, and fascination combined with repulsion