Power of Story Telling

Unit One Notes

1. Author

Most Dangerous Game

• Richard Connell 2. Title Game • Play on words --Playing --Animal Hunted 3. Foreshadowing 4. Irony • Hints of what’s to come --Conversation between Whitney and Rainsford • Things turn out differently than expected --Rainsford a great hunter becomes hunted

5. Zaroff

Most Dangerous Game

• Bored with hunting • Buffalo hit him in the head 6. Rainsford • Fed Zaroff to Zaroff’s own dogs • Becoming uncivilized 7. Literary Terms Conflict Internal External 8.

Setting • Should Rainsford play the game • Fighting the sea • Couldn’t happen anywhere else

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Author Where Have You Gone Charming Billy?

 Tim O’Brian 10.

Characterization  1.

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5 Methods Author Tells Directly Character’s Actions Character’s Speech Reactions of Other Characters Character’s Emotions/Thoughts

Where Have You Gone Charming Billy?

11. Figurative Language  Communicates ideas beyond the ordinary meaning of words --Using: personification, hyperbole, simile, metaphor 12. Giggling Hysterically  Why?

- Frightened, nervous, coping

Where Have You Gone Charming Billy?

13. Irony Verbal  Saying things don’t mean Dramatic Irony of Situation  Reader knows more than characters  Situation turns out different than expected --Billy dying of fright

14. Author

Marigolds

 Eugenia Collier

15. Conflict

 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

Marigolds

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

19. Simile

Marigolds

 One thing is compared to another using “like” or “as” -- “old fears like a cobweb”

The Perfect Storm

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

The Perfect Storm

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

The Perfect Storm

27. 1 st 28. 2 nd 29. 3 rd 30. 4 th Attempt Attempt Attempt Attempt • Rafts dropped from falcon --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

The Wreck of the Hesperus

31. Author  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow --Based on real wreck 32. Narrative Poem 33. Conflict  Tells a story --Ballad   Ship Crew vs. Weather Skipper vs. Sailor

The Wreck of the Hesperus

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