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Short Stories - Literary Devises Title: The most dangerous game

Point of View: Third person, limited omniscient.

The protagonist is Rainsford, and he is a round, dynamic character.

The protagonist changes his views on animals and humans over the story. At the start of the story, Rainsford thinks that animals do not have feelings, that you either are born the hunted or you are born the hunter, and they are the hunted. At the end of the story he feels differently because he has had a chance to be the hunted.

The antagonist is General Zaroff.

The setting is on an island in the middle of the Caribbean sea, and goes on for multiple days. The mood is suspenseful and dark.

The conflict is man vs. man.

The main conflict is the hunt for Rainsford.

The climax is when Rainsford is in Zaroff's room near the end of the story.

The theme is hunter vs. hunted, and the title is The most dangerous game. The title goes with the theme because game is what the hunter hunts for, and the hunted is the game.

The main conflict is the hunt for Rainsford, where Rainsford is the hunted and Zaroff is the hunter.

The climax is Zaroff's room at the end of the story, and the theme relates to the climax because the hunter and the hunted, Rainsford and Zaroff, have switched places.

Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes):

Simile: "Ugh! It's like moist black velvet" This is comparing the night to moist black velvet.

Metaphor: "He tumbled headlong into the deepest sleep of his life" This is comparing falling and sleeping.

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Personification: "the sea licked greedy lips in the shadows." This is stating that the sea has lips.

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">A symbol is ship trap island ,and it represents general Zaroff's greed for a challenging hunt.

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Foreshadowing (give both elements): Rainsford builds a Burmese tiger trap. This foreshadows that one of Zaroff's dogs falls into the pit and dies.

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Irony: General Zaroff says that he invented a new game, but we have already been killing each other for thousands of years.

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">Imagery: The largest man he had ever seen - a gigantic creature, solidly made and black-bearded to the waist.

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif';">The relationship between the class theme of humanity and the story is that General Zaroff chooses to hunt humans because humans have humanity, they can think and reason, but his hunting is inhumane, it turns them into objects, without their humanity.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1. What is meant by “He lived a year in a minute”? /2

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It is a metaphor meaning that time slowed down for him.It means that he felt like one minute lasted for the length of a year.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2. What is meant by “I am still a beast at bay”? /2

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rainsford meant that the hunt was not over yet, that he was still the beast, but they were on even ground this time.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3. In which sea has Connell set Ship-Trap island? /1

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> The colone l has set ship trap island is the carribean sea.

<span style="background-color: #ff0000; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4. How is Zaroff able to finance his life style? /2

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Zaroff is able to finance his life style because he invested heavily in American securities.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5. If Rainsford wins the hunt, what does Zaroff promise him? /1

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He promises him that he will let him go, but he must not tell anyone of the island.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">6. What happened to Lazarus? /2

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lazarus died in quicksand after he followed a man into the quicksand of the death swamp..

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">7. Where does Rainsford spend the first night of his hunt? /1

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rainford spends the first night in a tree.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">8. How many acres did Zaroff’s father have in the Crimea? /1

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">His father had a quarter of a million acres in the Crimera.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">9. Why does Zarroff suggest Rainsford wear moccasins? /1

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He suggests Rainsford should wear mocassins because they leave a poorer trail to follow.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10. What caused Rainsford to believe Zaroff knew he was hiding in the tree? Do you think he was right? Give reasons. /3

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Zaroff knew he was in the tree because he smiled and deliberately blew a smoke ring into the air, after he stopped below the place where Rainsford was hiding.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">11. How does Zaroff stock his island with “game”? /2

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Zaroff put lights in the water, to signify that there is a channel so that ships will follow them. They lead not to a channel, but to jagged rocks which tear the ships apart.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; 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: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">General Zaroff was fed to his dogs, because Zaroff said “one of us will furnish a repast for the hounds. The other will sleep in a very excellent bed. On guard Rainsford...” Then Rainsford thinks that he has never slept in a better bed.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; 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: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He congratulates Rainsford because not many people know how to make a malay man-catcher, and especially one that could injure him.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">14. How do we know Rainsford is an exceptionally fit man ? /2

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rainsford is fit because he ran across the island being chased by dogs.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; 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: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">At the start of the book, Rainsford thinks that animals do not have feelings, that you either are born the hunted or you are born the hunter, and they are the hunted. At the end of the story he feels differently because he has had a chance to be the hunted.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">16. How does Connell inspire fear without obvious bloodshed/grotesqueness. /3

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He writes his story in a way where we know what happened, and we can imagine it, but he does not describe it. He also uses passages filled with terrifying suspense.

Completion 5/5

Effort 3/5

Content 3/5

Questions 28/32

Total 39/47