Transcript Power of Story Telling
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