Unit 1 Test Flashcards
How old was Richard Connell when he began his writing career?
ten years old
What famous short story did Richard Connell write?
The Most Dangerous Game
What famous character did Sir Arthur Conan Doyle create?
Sherlock Holmes
Who was Edgar Allan Poe?
He was considered “the father of the detective story.”
Walter de la Mare
He wrote many poems with incomplete stories.
the literary technique used when an author wants to hint at future events. This is an especially important technique when an author is trying to create suspense.
Foreshadowing
carefully chosen words and details.
Mood
the quality of a literary work that makes the reader or audience uncertain or tense about the outcome of events.
Suspense
man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. society, man vs. himself, man vs. God. Who is the protagonist and what do they want? Who or what is the antagonist? How is this force working against the protagonist?
Conflict
base your predictions on details that the characters seem to ignore.
Prediction
the repetition of grammatically similar words or groups of words.
Parallelism
