“THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME”

By: Richard Connell

Think about the title…

•Before reading the story, we completed a brainstorming activity to identify the most “dangerous” games.

•What does the title suggest about the plot of the story? Who/what are “the most dangerous game” in this text?

Imagery

In creating effective imagery, writers use sensory details, or descriptions that appeal to one or more of the five senses: sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell.

Literary Elements

•Imagery – Descriptive language used by an author to create images in readers’ minds.

•Locate an image (find the direct quote) of a visual that stands out to you on pages 13-14. Copy the quote into your notebook.

ImageryRichard Connell used sound images throughout the story. The sound of the gun, Rainsford’s cry when he falls off the yacht, the animal’s scream, the pistol shots, and the sound of the sea breaking on the shore add to the story’s realism and suspense.

Personification A figure of speech in which an animal, object, force of nature, or idea is given human characteristics.

“An apprehensive night crawled by like a slow wounded snake.”

“For a seemingly endless time he fought the sea…”

“…the muttering and growling of the sea breaking on a rocky shore”

Simile A direct comparison between two unlike things using the words like or as.

•“[the night] is like moist black velvet.”•“The sea was as flat as a plate glass window.”•“He strained his eyes in the direction from which the report had come, but it was like trying to see through a blanket.”

MetaphorA comparison that does NOT use like or as.

“The lights of the yacht became faint and ever-vanishing fireflies.”

ForeshadowingAn author’s use of clues that hint at events that will occur later in the story.

•“This place has an evil name among seafaring men, sir. . . Don’t you feel anything? It’s as if the air is poisonous.”

•“Whenever he looked up from his plate he found the general studying him, appraising him narrowly.”•“I hunt more dangerous game.”

What literary devices are being employed in the following slides???

“She is a walking dictionary.”