1. Do Now: Read the following questions and assessments: EQs Assessments
*How is character identity Character Analysis Essay
shaped and used to shape Setting Analysis Essay
story elements? Literary Crit Presentation
*How do setting, plot, and language Short Story Presentation
choices affect meaning? Short Story Test
*How does POV affect reading?
What do you need to know or know how to do to be successful in this unit?

2. Reading the Story
Tools of Analysis

3. Commercial or Literary? What’s the Diff?
Reading for Purpose—pp
Commercial Literary

4. Two Approaches to Reading
Explication
Analysis
Detailed—
nearly line by
line analysis
POV
Connotation
Imagery
Figurative Language
Allusion
Form
Structure
Rhythm
Sound
Separating the parts, and focusing on ONE or TWO to relate to the
whole
Text must be rich enough
Nursery Rhymes wouldn’t work
Text cannot be too long
Poetry
Songs
Single lines or titles of works
Best for Prose works
Can work for all types of literature

5. Important Terms for our Analysis Tomorrow
Tone
Direct & Indirect Characterization
Static vs. Dynamic Characters
Round vs. Flat Characters
Archetypes
Tension
Diction

6. Do Now: Preview “The Most Dangerous Game” (pp. 67-85)
What type of fiction would you characterize this story as: Commercial or Literary?
Be ready to Explain

7. Steps for Explication De Texte
Select and read a small portion of the text (4- 5 lines)
For our model, we will be looking at paragraphs 1- 3 (p 85)
Literal Content:
Journalistic Questioning (who, what, when, where, why)
What is the Rhetorical Situation of the writing?

8. Steps for Explication De Texte
Figurative Language
Similes & metaphors
Images & symbols
Repetitions and Antitheses
Diction
Create lists of nouns, verbs
Look up multiple meanings of these words (Use a dictionary)
Examine adjectives, adverbs
Determine the connotation of these words

9. Steps for Explication De Texte
Structure
What are the sections of this passage?
How do they relate to one another?
Where does this section relate to the entire piece?
Style
Syntax: Parallelism, Disease Sentences
Alliteration and Poetic Device
Characterization
What is the persona/character like?
Allusions to other characters?

10. Steps for Explication De Texte
Tone
What is the feeling in this passage?
Assessment
How does the passage relate to the whole?
(chronologically, thematically?)
Theme
Do any meanings/larger ideas arise?

11. Steps for Explication De Texte
Thesis:
Create an assertion about the meaning and
function of this part of the text.
Paragraphs 1-3 of “The Most Dangerous Game”
serve to introduce the ominous setting of Ship-
Trap Island and the genre of a “mystery” story in which characters Whitney and Rainsford are to
feature.

12. Your Turn Paragraphs Read and Explicate your short section
4-6
7-13
14-19
19-21
22-24
24-27
Read and Explicate your short section
Be prepared to share your thesis

13. Homework: Read pp. 69-71 Choose 4-5 lines that you think is central to
the text.
Explicate that section
Write a thesis to share tomorrow

14. Share your thesis with your tablemates
DO NOW
Share your thesis with your tablemates
Pick the best one.
Be prepared to share.

15. Cornell Notes: Structural Analysis (110-102)
Plot & Structure
Characterization
Point of View
Theme
Humor and Irony
Symbol, Allegory, and Fantasy
General Analysis

16. Plot & Structure Conflict Probability & Chance Suspense/Tension
Man v Man
Used to initiate/compl icate/resolve
Man v Self
Man v Nature
Realistic/Unrealistic
Man v Society
Suspense/Tension
Plot Unity
Internal dilemma
Linear pyramid
Mystery
Flashback/forward
Interweaving stories
Surprises
Achieved fairly
Formulas
Hiding story weakness
Archetypes

17. Characterization Revealing character Realism Round or Flat
Direct—author says how they are
Indirect—actions and reaction show how they are
Realism
Consistent behavior
Stock or stereotypical
Round or Flat
Level of development
Dynamic or Static
Big or little changes

18. Point of view 1st, 2nd, 3rd Narrator: Used to conceal or reveal?
Participant
Omniscient
Limited
Shifting
Dramatic (like in a play)
Used to conceal or reveal?
Advantages of the POV?

19. Theme Humor and Irony Implicit or Explicit
Reinforce or oppose popular notions?
Humor and Irony
Dramatic/Situational/Verbal
Existing for its own sake, or contributes to
meaning?

20. Symbol, Allegory, and Fantasy
Settings
Allegorical?
Motifs & Symbol
Clear cut
Ambiguos
Carrying individual m eaning
meaning in the
Fantastic?
particular story
Logical
Expressing a human
truth

21. General What element is the most interesting?
Is the Setting/Geography essential?
Appropriate tone
Style
Syntax
Diction
Title?
How is the central purpose achieved?
Commercial or literary?

22. What can we look at already?
POV
Some Characterization
Some Structure
Some Style (General)

23. Reading Groups Par. 52-64 (Character) Par. 65-84 (Style)
Paragraph
Focus
Par (Character)
Par (Style)
Par (Character)
Par (Irony)
Par (Plot & Structure)
Par (Symbol)

24. Analysis of The Most Dangerous Game
So what else can we look at now?
Title
Themes
Interesting Elements
Geography

25. Homework Finish Reading “The Most Dangerous Game”
Create a purpose statement:
Richard Connell wrote the short story
“The Most Dangerous Game” to…

26. Analysis of The Most Dangerous Game
Par How does the author create
tension through character words and actions?