"The Most Dangerous Game" and Writing Process Test Review

1. 2. 3. 4. Antagonist Protagonist Conflict Plot

Exposition, Rising action , climax, Falling action, Resolution 5. Denouement 6. Foreshadowing 7. Irony Verbal Situational

Literary Terms 8. Setting 9. Theme 10. Suspense 11. Symbolism 12. Point of View 1st Person 3rd Person

Omniscient Limited 13. Figurative Language Imagery 14. Characterization Literary Terms

(a) "We should make it in a few days. I hope the jaguar guns have come from Purdey's. We should have some good hunting up the Amazon. Great sport, hunting." This passage is (b) "The best sport in the world," agreed Rainsford. part of the (c) "For the hunter," amended Whitney. "Not for the ______. jaguar." (d) "Don't talk rot, Whitney," said Rainsford. "You're a A. setting big-game hunter, not a philosopher. Who cares how B. Rising action

a jaguar feels?" C. Climax (e) "Perhaps the jaguar does," observed Whitney. D. Falling action (f) Bah! They've no understanding." (g) Even so, I rather think they understand one thing-fear. The fear of pain and the fear of death." (h) "Nonsense," laughed Rainsford. "This hot weather is making you soft, Whitney. Be a realist. The world is made up of two classes--the hunters and the hunted. Luckily, you and I are hunters. Protagonist Sanger Rainsford

Main Antagonist: General Zaroff Other Antagonists The Caribbean Sea Ivan The Jungle Fear The dogs A conflict is a struggle between two people, between a person and nature, or between two different sides of the same person.

Use this chart to explain each different type of conflict in the story. The sea, the dogs, the jungle, the quicksand General Zaroff, Whitney, Ivan

Terror-- I must keep my nerve. I must keep my nerve, he said through tight teeth. Main Conflict Man v. man Climaxes Rainsford refuses to hunt with

Zaroff and becomes the hunted. Rainsford hides in the tree. Rainsford makes the Malay Man Trap. Rainsford builds the Burmese tiger pit. Rainsford is cornered and leaps from the cliff. **Rainsford confronts Zaroff. Twenty feet below him the sea rumbled and hissed. Rainsford hesitated. He heard the hounds. Then he leaped far out into the sea.

Denouement He had never slept in a better bed, Rainsford decided. Exposition The myth of Ship Trap Island

Rainsfords hunting background Zaroffs hunting background Ivans background--Cossack The rules of the game Foreshadowing We were drawing near the island then. What I felt was aa mental chill; a sort of sudden dread. Somewhere, off in the blackness, someone had fired a gun three times. Ive read your book about hunting snow leopards in Tibet, you see, explained the man. I am General Zaroff. That Cape buffalo was a monster...Hurled me against a tree,

said the general. Fractured my skull. But I got the brute. I drink to a foeman worthy of my steelat last. Literary Terms Which of the sentences is an example of foreshadowing? A B C

D E F G H (a) "We should make it in a few days. I hope the jaguar guns have come from Purdey's. We should have some good hunting up the Amazon. Great sport, hunting." (b) "The best sport in the world," agreed Rainsford. (c) "For the hunter," amended Whitney. "Not for the jaguar."

(d) "Don't talk rot, Whitney," said Rainsford. "You're a big-game hunter, not a philosopher. Who cares how a jaguar feels?" (e) "Perhaps the jaguar does," observed Whitney. (f) Bah! They've no understanding." (g) Even so, I rather think they understand one thing-fear. The fear of pain and the fear of death." (h) "Nonsense," laughed Rainsford. "This hot weather is making you soft, Whitney. Be a realist. The world is made up of two classes--the hunters and the hunted. Luckily, you and I are hunters. Point of view

Third person, author limited to Rainsford: Rainsford did not want to believe what his reason told him was true, but the truth was as evident as the sun that had by now pushed through the morning mists. The general was playing with him! The general was saving him for another days sport! Setting The yacht in the Caribbean Zaroffs palatial

mansion on Ship Trap Island Death Swamp Symbolism

General Zaroff Ivan Game Death Swamp Ivan Cossack Sanger Rainsford Whitney Lazarus Marcus Aurelius, Madama Butterfly, Chablis, filet mignon

http://prezi.com/ehr7vbuevpqj/most-dangerous-game/ And now, said the general, I want to show you my new collection of heads. Will you come with me to the library? Suspense Suspense is the curiosity and excitement you feel when you are reading or watching a movie and you wonder what will happen next. Writers often create suspense by putting characters in dangerous situations. For example, the following passage from The Most Dangerous Game makes you wonder

what will happen next. For a seemingly endless time he fought the sea. He began to count his strokes; he could do possibly a hundred more and then Theme Thou Shalt not Kill. What is the most dangerous game?

Im a hunter, not a murderer. We try to be civilized here. Literary Terms: Figurative Language Imagery Personification Simile Metaphor 1. "Nor four yards," remarked Rainsford, Ugh, its like moist black

velvet. 2. "There was no breeze. The sea was as flat as a plate-glass window. 3. giant rocks with razor edges crouch like a sea monster with wide-open jaws 4.

An apprehensive night crawled slowly by like a wounded snake 5. The Cossack was the cat; he was the mouse. The Most Dangerous Game Key Vocabulary Words 1. Condone to forgive or overlook 2. Cultivated refine or cultured manner 3. Quarry the object of a hunt 4. Scruple a feeling of uneasiness that keeps a

person from doing something 5. Solicitously-in a manner of expressing concern 6. Tangible- capable of being touched or felt 7. Zealous- intensely enthusiastic