1. Power of Story Telling
Unit One Notes

2. Most Dangerous Game Author 2. Title Game Foreshadowing Irony
Richard Connell
Play on words
--Playing
--Animal Hunted
Hints of what’s to come
--Conversation between Whitney and Rainsford
Things turn out differently than expected
--Rainsford a great hunter becomes hunted

3. Most Dangerous Game Zaroff Rainsford Literary Terms Conflict Internal
External
Setting
Bored with hunting
Buffalo hit him in the head
Fed Zaroff to Zaroff’s own dogs
Becoming uncivilized
Should Rainsford play the game
Fighting the sea
Couldn’t happen anywhere else

4. Where Have You Gone Charming Billy?
Author
Characterization
Tim O’Brian
5 Methods
Author Tells Directly
Character’s Actions
Character’s Speech
Reactions of Other Characters
Character’s Emotions/Thoughts

5. Where Have You Gone Charming Billy?
11. Figurative Language
12. Giggling Hysterically
Communicates ideas beyond the ordinary meaning of words
--Using: personification, hyperbole, simile, metaphor
Why?
--Frightened, nervous, coping

6. Where Have You Gone Charming Billy?
13. Irony-
Verbal
Dramatic
Irony of
Situation
Saying things don’t mean
Reader knows more than characters
Situation turns out different than expected
--Billy dying of fright

7. Marigolds 14. Author 15. Conflict Eugenia Collier
Struggle between character and an opposing force
--Lizabeth’s perception (view) of father as a “rock” and catching him crying in despair
--This leads to Lizabeth’s act of destruction

8. Marigolds 16. She picks flowers 17. Setting 18. Figurative Language
Don’t fit in
Depression important to the plot because it leads to Liz’s act of destruction
Use of simile

9. Marigolds
19. Simile
One thing is compared to another using “like” or “as”
-- “old fears like a cobweb”

10. The Perfect Storm Sebastian Junger 20. Author Satori 21. Sailboat
Sue Bylander
Karen Stimpson
Ray Leonard
Gold Bond Conveyer
--Got mayday call
20. Author
21. Sailboat
22. 3 Crewmembers
23. Freighter

11. The Perfect Storm 24. Cutter 25. Jet 26. H3 Tamoroa Falcon Helicopter
--Salvaged Battleship in WWII
--12 Hours away
Falcon
--Can only circle
Helicopter
--Can only stay out 4 hours

12. The Perfect Storm Rafts dropped from falcon 27. 1st Attempt
--Exploded on impact
--H3 used as target
Avon Raft
--NOW 6 people need to be rescued
Dave Moore
--Swim to ship
Crew jumps from sailboat & Dave puts them in basket
27. 1st Attempt
28. 2nd Attempt
29. 3rd Attempt
30. 4th Attempt

13. The Wreck of the Hesperus
31. Author
32. Narrative Poem
33. Conflict
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
--Based on real wreck
Tells a story
--Ballad
Ship Crew vs. Weather
Skipper vs. Sailor

14. The Wreck of the Hesperus
34. Similes
35. Personification
36. 3 things daughter sees/hears
37. Personification
Hair like brown seaweed
She (ship) shuddered
1. Church bells/fog-bell
2. Guns
3. Light/lighthouse
When human characteristics are given to non-humans