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“The Most Dangerous Game” Test Review
Here’s What you Can Expect-Plot Questions-Literary Terms Questions-MDG Vocabulary
Literary Terms1. Antagonist2. Protagonist3. Conflict4. Plot--Rising action
& Falling action5. Climax6. Denouement7. Exposition8. Foreshadowing9. Irony10. Setting11. Theme
12. Suspense13. Symbolism14. Point of View15. Imagery; Figurative
Language
• There will be at least 10 questions on the test about these terms.
• Sometimes the same passage maybe used for different questions.
Literary Terms
This passage is part of the ______.
A. settingB. Rising actionC. ClimaxD. Falling
action
(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.
Protagonist—Sanger Rainsford
Main Antagonist:General Zaroff
Other Antagonists—The Caribbean SeaIvanThe JungleFearThe 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• Rainsford’s hunting background• Zaroff’s hunting background• Ivan’s background--Cossack• The rules of the game
Foreshadowing• “We were drawing near the island then. What I felt was a—a mental chill; a sort of sudden dread.”
• “Somewhere, off in the blackness, someone had fired a gun three times.”
• “I’ve 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 steel—at last.”
Literary Terms
Which of the sentences is an example of foreshadowing?
ABCDEFGH
(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 day’s sport!”
Setting• The yacht in the
Caribbean• Zaroff’s 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
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“And now,” said the general, “I want to show you my new collection of heads. Will you come with me to the library?”
SuspenseSuspense 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?• “I’m 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, it’s 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 Words1. Condone – to forgive or overlook2. Cultivated – refine or cultured manner3. Quarry – the object of a hunt4. Scruple – a feeling of uneasiness that keeps
a person from doing something5. Solicitously-in a manner of expressing
concern6. Tangible- capable of being touched or felt7. Zealous- intensely enthusiastic