1. FOCUS:
Think about yesterday’s lesson. In your own words, define the following terms in your notebook:
Dialogue with the Text
Annotation
Make inferences
Draw Conclusions
How do you feel these active reading strategies could help you in this and other classes?

2. Warm up
Please prepare to submit your paragraph and assignments leading to your final draft in the following order from TOP TO BOTTOM
Final Copy
Rough Draft
Peer Revision Sheet
Sentence Outline
Theme Journal

3. “The Most Dangerous Game”
Literary Elements and Devices
PLEASE TAKE OUT YOUR NOTEBOOK TO PREPARE FOR NOTETAKING

4. Conflict
Definition: main problem in the story that drives the plot forward
Types of Conflict
Internal Conflict
person v. him/herself
External Conflict
person v. person
person v. nature
person v. society

5. Suspense Definition – a feeling of anticipation or dread Effect –
Builds conflict by adding complications and drives the plot through rising action
Engages readers by keeping them guessing

6. Foreshadowing
Definition: author’s use of clues to hint at future events in the narrative
Effect
Creates suspense
Engages audience by allowing them to make predictions and read to see if they are correct

7. Irony Definition: a contrast between expectation and reality Types
Situational – an outcome to a situation is opposite of what the reader or characters expect
Dramatic – when the audience knows something that the characters don’t know
Verbal – when words or phrases mean the exact opposite of their literal or usual meaning

8. Character: Individual in a literary work
Protagonist – the “main character” – the person who changes the most throughout the story, usually the “good guy”
Antagonist – the character(s) who opposes or creates complications for the protagonist

9. Characterization
Definition: the way the author reveals the personality of the characters
Types:
Direct – the narrator directly states the character’s personality
Indirect – the author implies the character’s personality through the character’s physical descriptions, actions, words, what other characters say about the character, and how they interact with the character