The+Most+Dangerous+Game

1. What is meant by “He lived a year in a minute”? /2 It means his life flashed before his eyes and it seemed like time went insanely slow so he had time to act. 2. What is meant by “I am still a beast at bay”? /2 It means he is not finished, and he is still fighting 3. In which sea has Connell set Ship-Trap island? /1 The Caribbean 4. How is Zaroff able to finance his life style? /2 Hunting and selling the meats and furs 5. If Rainsford wins the hunt, what does Zaroff promise him? /1 to be dropped off at a neer by city and a good night sleep in his bed 6. What happened to Lazarus? /2 He got fed to the dogs 7. Where does Rainsford spend the first night of his hunt? /1 In a tree 8. How many acres did Zaroff’s father have in the Crimea? /1 Big Game hunting. selling the meat and fur <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">9. Why does Zarroff suggest Rainsford wear moccasins? /1 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">They create less tracks than normal shoes <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">11. How does Zaroff stock his island with “game”? /2 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">he lures the people in with his ship trap <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">12. What happened to General Zaroff at the end of the story? /2 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He loses the game when Rainsford comes out from the curtains and defeats him <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">13. Inspite of being hurt, Zaroff congratulates Rainsford on his “Malay mancatcher,” why? /2 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Because he beats him honorably at his own game <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">14. How do we know Rainsford is an exceptionally fit man? /2 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">he was able to climb up the rocks and sneak into Zaroff’s bedroom <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">15. Discuss the state of mind of Rainsford before he lands on the island versus that after he meets the General. What is different? (Especially about how he perceives animal feelings.)/5 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He thought animals had no fealings and it didnt matter if they were hunted and killed until he was put in their perspective <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">16. How does Connell inspire fear without obvious bloodshed/grotesqueness. /3 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He makes Rainsford believe that he is about to be caught then lets him have a little bit of slack

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Short Stories - Literary Devises <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Point of View: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3rd person <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Protagonist: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rainsford <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What type of character is the Protagonist? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Round <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Antagonist: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">General Zaroff <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Describe the setting <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Zaroff’s island <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Type of Conflict: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Man vs man <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Describe the main conflict: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Zaroff trapped Rainsford on his island <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Describe the Climax of the Story: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When Rainsford comes out from the curtains and defeats Zaroff <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He didn't see anything wrong with hunting at the start until he was put in the point of the view of an animals when he was hunted. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Describe the relationship between the title and the theme. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The title “The Most Dangerous Game” is like the theme in a way because it is dangerous to both animals and humans if they're getting hunted there is no difference <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The main conflict is when Rainsford is being hunted and that is an example of how it is not right to hunt anyone or anything because everyone and everything experiences fear. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When Rainsford comes out from the curtains and has Zaroff's life in his hands it is insane carma and proves no one likes to get hunted. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes):

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Simile: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When Whitney says “Ugh! Its like moist black velvet” <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Metaphor: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When Rainsford said “This hot wet weather is making you soft, Whitney.” <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Personification: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When it says “but the muffled throb of the engine that moved the yacht swiftly through the darkness.” <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Symbol: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When Zaroff talks about “Big Game” he is symbolizing for killing a human. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Foreshadowing (give both elements): <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In the opening sentences Whitney mentions that Shiptrap island is a suggestive name and later they realize they were right when they get trapped <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Irony: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rainsford thought when he hunted the jaguar had no feelings and it didn't matter how he felt until carma came into play and he became the hunted and he didn't like it <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Imagery: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">an example of imagery from the story is in the opening sentences when it says “trying to peer through the dank tropical night that was palpable as it pressed its thick warm blackness in upon the yacht.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Comlpetion 4/5 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Effort 3/5 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Content 4/5 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Total <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">12/15