English 9 Review for Final

Stories The Most Dangerous Game The Necklace Two Kinds Gift of the Magi The Censors The Sniper The Possibility of Evil The Odyssey

Characters Dangerous Game: Rainsford, Zaroff, Ivan Necklace: Mme/Mr Loisel Two Kinds: Jing Mei, mother, Old Chong Gift of the Magi: Jim, Della The Censors: Juan, Mariana The Sniper: main sniper, opposing sniper, informant (old lady), armored car driver Possibility of Evil: Miss Strangeworth, teens, shopkeeper Odyssey: Odysseus, Telemachus, Penelope, Cyclopes, Circe, Scylla, Sirens, Charybdis, Helios, Zeus, Athena, Hermes, Poseidon, Suitors, Shepherd

Elements of Plot Exposition – Setting (time and place); characters Rising Action – Protagonist, antagonist, main conflict Man vs man, man vs society, man vs nature, man vs self Climax = highest point of tension – Generally when the main conflict ends Falling action – Events immediately following the climax Resolution/Denouement – Final outcome – Theme

Themes Dangerous Game – Before judging walk a mile in someone else’s shoes? Necklace – Be glad with what you have? Two Kinds – Time can heal wounds and help us find ourselves? The Sniper – War can tear families and countries apart? The Gift of the Magi – Material goods are not nearly as important as true love The Possibility of Evil – Mind your own business? Secrecy ends in disaster?

Irony Situational – deals with reasonable expectations of the reader and/or character; those expectations are broken by the author Dramatic – deals with knowledge kept from the character; the reader knows something and tension builds as an outcome is awaited Verbal – saying the opposite of what is meant

Irony in Texts The Most Dangerous Game The Necklace Two Kinds Gift of the Magi The Censors The Sniper The Possibility of Evil The Odyssey

Hero Cycle Hero has abilities above and beyond the norm Hero has a quest/goal Hero is helped and hindered by magical and mythical beings/people/weapons Hero is tested to prove his worthiness (and shows off his skills in those tests) Hero enters a forbidden world of darkness Hero has a point of apparent defeat/death Hero resurrected from the point of defeat Hero retains/regains former glory w/ new power/knowledge