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Literary Elements
The Dangerous Game
from Black Boy
The Lady, or the Tiger
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This is the main idea or message of a literary work.
What is the theme.
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This is the way General Zaroff found the men that hunted.
What is from wrecked ships, and from traps using lights to make ships crash into rocks?
100
The genre of this selection is this.
What is nonfiction?
100
This is the setting.
What is long ago in an arena?
100
Vocabulary: this is capable of being touched or felt.
What is tangible?
200
This is the mood or emotional quality of a literary work, often about people and setting.
What is atmosphere?
200
This is the animal that Zaroff found ideal, one that could reason.
What is man?
200
This is the person the selection is about.
What is/ Who is Richard Wright?
200
This is how the princess is typical of conventional fairy tale princess.
What is she's beautiful and spoiled?
200
This is an example of the object of a prepositional phrase.
What is (show example)?
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This is the growing interest and excitement readers experience while awaiting a climax or resolution in a work of literature.
What is atmosphere?
300
This literary element is calling the castaways "visitors" and "pupils" while treating them barbarous.
What is irony?
300
This is a list of people that did not like Richard writing and having it published in the paper.
What is / Who are his friends and family?
300
These are the internal conflicts the princess has.
What is to let the young man die, or to let him marry another woman?
300
This is a word that can modify a verb, an adjective, or an adverb.
What is adverb?
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This is a contrast between appearance and reality.
What is irony?
400
The nature of the conflict as Rainsford discovers he is the hunted and not the hunter. Who is it between?
What is external conflict? (between Rainsford and Zaroff)
400
Vocabulary: This is a firmly established opinion or belief.
What is conviction?
400
Vocabulary: having or showing great intensity of feeling; passionate.
What is fervent?
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Vocabulary: very eager; enthusiastic.
What is zealous?
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This is the methods an author uses to reveal a character's personality.
What is characterization?
500
This is how Rainsford is prepared to be hunted.
What is giving him a food supply, a knife, and a three-hour head start?
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This is a selection written by the main character about his own life.
What is an autobiography?
500
The reason the young man is sentenced to the arena.
What is the king didn't like him, and he did not want him to marry his daughter?
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This is an example of a complete subject. (Write a complete sentence drawing a line between the complete subject and complete predicate.
What is (student example)