EL Literature Flashcards
What is the purpose of alliteration in the text?
Gives an arithmetic beat to the poem and a pattern
What line is being repeated, and why do we use it?
To emphasize the idea, and to make a pattern and it shows rhythm.
What’s the symbolism of the Scarlet Ibis in the story?
It foreshadows Doodle’s death and symbolizes the fragility of life in nature, just how weak Doodle body is .The Scarlet Ibis symbolizes Doodle in his struggle to communicate and interact with the rest of society with his disabilities. The death and the color of the Scarlet Ibis represents Doodle and how he was alone just like the bird was alone and far from home.
What’s the internal and external conflict of the Scarlet Ibis story?
The internal conflict of the story is that the narrator won’t accept his brother as the way he is, and the external is that the narrator constantly pushes Doodle to go over the boundaries he’s capable of.
The author, date published of the dangerous game and the characters descriptions, and setting.
CHARACTERS
Whitney
Rainsford
General Zaroff
DESCRIBE
Easily anxious; frightened
2. Intelligent and experienced that makes him persevere through being hunted.
3. He hunts for the sake of entertaining himself; cunning.
AUTHOR
Richard Connell
YEAR PUBLISHED
January 19, 1924
SETTING
Ship Trap Island in the Caribbean
What’s the theme of the Necklace?
how greed and vanity are corrosive
The symbolism of the necklace in the story?
For Mathilde, the necklace she borrows from her school friend, Madame Forestier, is significant because it represents a promise of a better life, a life she feels she deserves. But like many modern and material goods, the necklace is merely an imitation of something else.
The setting of the necklace
In the 19th century, in Paris, France
How do the words in the title of the story create suspense in the most dangerous game?
The title foreshadows revolving a “game” that is extremely perilous, adding to the complexity of morality, with the biggest complex of man versus man, arguing with humans rights as the story deepens with more elements of the question of morals through violence and terror between the two.
