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The Most Dangerous Game
Literary Terms
Tone
• How the author/narrator feels
Mood
• How the audience feels
Connotation
• Emotional associations, suggestions, or implications of a word
Denotation
• Literal, dictionary definition of a word
Plot
• series of related events (exposition, complication, climax, resolution/denouement)
Conflict
• struggle
External Conflict
• man vs. man, man vs. society, man vs. nature
Internal Conflict
• struggle in a character’s mind or heart
Chronological Order
• Told in the order that events unfolded
Flashback
• When writers interrupt the flow of events to present an episode from the past
Foreshadowing
• Hints or clues that suggest what is to come in a story
Simile
• comparison using like or as
Direct Characterization
• What the narrator or another character tell us about a character
Indirect Characterization
• What we learn about a character through their actions
Fiction
• An invented or imagined story
First person point of view
• Uses I, me, or we. The narrator is a character
Third person point of view
• Uses he, she, they. Either follows one or two characters (limited) or is all-knowing (omniscient).
Allusion
• A reference to a person, place, or event outside of the story
Theme
• The main idea or the basic meaning of a work
Satire
• A kind of writing that holds up to ridicule or contempt the weakness and wrongdoings of individuals, groups, institutions, or humanity in general.
Protagonist
• Main character
Antagonist
• Opposes the protagonist
Quickwrite
• Quickwrite: Some of the most exciting narratives pit villain against hero in a life-or-death struggle. The tension in such stories often depends as much on the character of the bad guy or gal as on that of the hero. Write a few sentences describing a villain from a novel, story, or movie. Why does the character fascinate you?
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