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The Most Dangerous Game By Richard Connell Literary Techniques

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In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game,” the author Richard Connel uses vivid imagery at the beginning of the story to set the mood and foreshadow the conflict for readers. For example, after Rainsford, the main character, fell off the boat, the author wrote: “The light of the yacht became faint and ever-vanishing fireflies (page 63)” This certain description sets up the mood of the description, both desperation and hopelessness and presents it to the audience. Nevertheless, the author also wrote: “...a high, screaming sound… in an extremity of anguish and terror.(page 63)” to illustrate the upcoming conflicts adroitly. Furthermore, vivid descriptive phrases such as “blood warm water (page 63)”, “hoarse cry(page 63)”, “stained crimson
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