Read the following line from young lions and young ladies boys and girls trying on relationships of men and women like kids playing dress-up in their parents clothes what type of figurative language is at event in this line

Characteristics of the Gothic Novel:

1) Gloomy, decaying setting (haunted houses or castles with secret passages, trapdoors, and other mysterious architecture)

2) Supernatural beings or monsters (ghosts, vampires, zombies, giants)

3) Curses or prophecies.

4) Damsels in distress.

5) Heroes.

6) Romance.

7) Intense emotions.