Which literary elements are used in this excerpt? Check all
that apply.
characterization
mood
conflict
Read the excerpt from "The Most Dangerous Game."
Bleak darkness was blacking out the sea and jungle when
Rainsford sighted the lights. He came upon them as he
turned a crook in the coast line, and his first thought was that
he had come upon a village, for there were many lights. But
as he forged along he saw to his great astonishment that all
the lights were in one enormous building-a lofty structure
with pointed towers plunging upward into the gloom. His
eyes made out the shadowy outlines of a palatial chateau; it
was set on a high bluff, and on three sides of it cliffs dived
down to where the sea licked greedy lips in the shadows.
"Mirage," thought Rainsford. But it was no mirage, he found,
when he opened the tall spiked iron gate. The stone steps
were real enough; the massive door with a leering gargoyle
for a knocker was real enough; yet above it all hung an air of
unreality
irony
imagery
foreshadowing