The Most Dangerous Game He had never slept in a better bed. Rainford decided. In two seconds‚ the general had run up to the wall where they enormous swords hang. General drew one of them and threw one of them to Rainford. Rainford was not prepared for its weight‚ which meant that he fell down. The General made a move toward him. Rainsford found himself quickly‚ he spun around on the floor and took shelter behind the armchair at the fireplace. A fight broke out. A fight for life or death. Suddenly
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Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe‚ the author used setting‚ characterization‚ and plot to create suspense. Well‚ the setting is an essential part of a horror story or even in any story. Plot is a really critical element of the story‚ we care about what happens next which is called suspense. Characterization is like what character is like‚ what he/she does etc. In “Tell-Tale Heart”‚ Poe uses setting to build suspense in the story. His story takes place in the old man’s room and it is in the evening
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is not one single person in this world who does not fit into a stereotype. Whether it is a mean wealthy person‚ a popular cheerleader‚ or a “large and in charge” black woman. While we in the modern century do our best to avoid these preconceived ideas about a human being’s existence‚ it can sometimes be too hard not to indulge in them. Literature constantly shows examples of these stereotypes. Authors often create flat or stereotypical characters to create relatability between the readers and characters
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Suspense story Dangerous encounters‚ I ran and I ran. Sweat pouring down my face. I could feel my heart thumping out of my chest. Whirl winds of emotions all round my body. Bumping into people their abuses faded away. Didn’t know whether her she was ok or not. My little sister. I sat there cuddled her and asked if she was alright. She gave me a lukewarm response. ‘Yes I am alright but I don’t want to go on the bumper cars ever again’. I was so relived‚ that moment I felt as
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How does the Prologue at the start of Romeo and Juliet create suspense? William Shakespeare‚ writer of Romeo and Juliet‚ creates suspense through the use of different techniques. Shakespeare is very particular in his choice of diction‚ by wisely picking specific vocabulary to create an atmosphere. It is usual that a Greek tragedy‚ such as Romeo and Juliet‚ contains a Prologue to set the tone for the rest of the play. Shakespeare wrote the Prologue in a Sonnet form using Iambic Pentameter‚ which
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Technology Folio 2011 semester 1 Maze Game Brian Tran Design Brief For this semester I was given a situation-create maze game that had the following criteria: * Posed a challenge to gamer * Had a beginning * Had an ending * Entries and exit * Kiosk mode on Intro screen In this game the aim to reach level 10 by following a white path towards the other end beginning at the green ball. Throughout the game there is a series of red balls that will send the player back
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stems from a life of wealth‚ luxury‚ and militarism‚ which inflate his ego and sense of entitlement and impose few limits on his desires. Zaroff began hunting at an early age when he shot his father’s prized turkeys and continually sought out bigger game in his family’s tract of wilderness in the Crimea‚ a peninsula on the Black Sea. Commanding a division of Cossack cavalrymen in Russia‚ meanwhile‚ familiarized Zaroff with the horrors and atrocities of warfare. He continued to hunt after the czar had
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Jane Eyre‚ as the eponymous character‚ has become closer and better known to us than to any familial member or friend. Because of this we understand the way she writes‚ and subsequently how she views her own new environment. Her vivid descriptions and powerful imagery remind us of where her imagination (more spirited than that of any other child) originated in the time spent engaged in Bewick’s ‘History of British Birds’‚ her only form of escapism from the dreary conditions at Gateshead Hall. So
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In Richard Connell’s short story “The Most Dangerous Game” General Zaroff displays intelligence‚ an evil mind‚ and also arrogance. Zaroff seems like a civilized human being but when we learn that he hunts people on his island for entertainment‚ we see that he is really nothing less than a monster. He is portrayed as vicious to readers by the way he looks‚ what he says‚ and what Rainsford says to him. Throughout Connell’s short story General Zaroff displays his intelligence and experience in hunting
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used to create tension and suspense in ’The Monkey’s Paw’. From the very beginning we can see that the language used sets the scene and conveys the mood of the story; "the night was cold and wet". Pathetic fallacy immediately implies that the story will be based on evil and creates tension as it intrigues the reader. We can see that the language used helps the story to become fast paced which contributes to creating tension and suspense. We can also see that there are many words that create suspense
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