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Short Stories - Literary Devises Title: The most Dangerous Game

Point of View: **3rd** Protagonist: **Rainsford** What type of character is the Protagonist? **Round, Flat** Antagonist: **General Zaroff** Describe the setting **Place: Ship Trap Island** **Time: 1900's** Mood: Eerie, intense, and suspenseful. Describe the setting! Type of Conflict: **Man vs. Man**

Describe the main conflict: **Rainsford resents the General for killing human beings and he resents him even more when the General makes Rainsford hunt.**

Describe the Climax of the Story: **When Rainsford jumped off the cliff, because Zaroff thought he won, when he didn't.**

How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? **In the beginning, Rainsford had no compassion for the animals that he killed, but while he was being hunted, he realized what they must feel like.**

Describe the relationship between the title and the theme. **I believe the theme in the story is; don’t take things for granted, and The most Dangerous Game, hunting, Rainsford takes for granted, and it almost ends up killing him.**

How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? **Rainsford takes the game for granted, and then he becomes the huntee rather than the hunter in the game. So it makes him wake up from the perfect world he was living in, and realize that he was being ignorant.**

How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? **Zaroff took Rainsford for granted when Rainsford jumped off the cliff and wasn't cautious around the fact that he may still be alive trying to kill him.**

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

Simile: **"The Sea was as flat as a plate glass window."**

Metaphor: **"Sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing."**

Personification: **"The speeding yacht slapped him in the face."**

Symbol: **When the General Smiles and blows a smoke ring toward Rainsford, symbolizing that he was toying with Rainsford.**

Foreshadowing (give both elements): **"...Who cares how the jaguar feels?...Perhaps the Jaguar does!...They've no understanding!...The world is made up of two classes-the hunters and the huntees, luckily, you and I are the hunters!** Foreshadowing;  **That Rainsford will soon become the huntee!**

Irony: **That Rainsford showed no compassion for the animals he was hunting, and then he became hunted.**

Imagery: **"It's like moist black velvet."**

Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story.

**The class theme, “Power” is represented in this story by the many shifts in power, for example, Rainsford is in power when he is the hunter, but Zaroff then takes that power when he becomes the hunter.**

Completion 5/5 Effort 3.5/5 Content 4/5 total 12.5/15

=﻿The Most dangerous game questions;=

He likes to feel thrills, and live life in the moment. He is a dare devil.He lives for danger.
 * 1. What is meant by “He lived a year in a minute”?1 **

That Rainsford still does not care if his prey have feelings.
 * 2. What is meant by “I am still a beast at bay”?1 **

The Carribean Sea.
 * 3. In which sea has Connell set Ship-Trap island?1 **

He invested heavilly in American Stocks.
 * 4. How is Zaroff able to finance his life style?1 **

To send him home.
 * 5. If Rainsford wins the hunt, what does Zaroff promise him?1 **

He died in Rainsfords Burmise Tiger trap.
 * 6. What happened to Lazarus?0 **

In a tree.
 * 7. Where does Rainsford spend the first night of his hunt?1 **

A Quarter of a milloin.
 * 8. How many acres did Zaroff’s father have in the Crimea?1 **

It leaves less of a trail.
 * 9. Why does Zarroff suggest Rainsford wear moccasins?1 **

Rainsford thought that the General was toying with him, deliberatly smiling and blowing the smoke ring. I believe he was right because why else would the general smile right in his direction.
 * 10. What caused Rainsford to believe Zaroff knew he was hiding in the tree? Do you think he was right? Give reasons.3 **

The island is called, "Ship Trap Island", because of the tendency it has to sink vessels, and since the island is the clossest land, the surviving sailors swim there, with no escape.
 * 11. How does Zaroff stock his island with “game”?1 **

Him and Rainsford faught to the death, Rainsford one so he Zaroff died.
 * 12. What happened to General Zaroff at the end of the story?2 **

Not many people know how to make one.
 * 13. Inspite of being hurt, Zaroff congratulates Rainsford on his “Malay mancatcher,” why?1 **

He was able to run for 3 days strait, make traps, eat very little, and still swim across the lagoon to make it to the castle.
 * 14. How do we know Rainsford is an exceptionally fit man?2 **

He is cocky, and disrepectful to animals, he had little to no feelings for them, other then that they were stupid and usless other then for recreational purposes such as to be hunted. BUt while he is being hunted, he felt how the animals must feel when he hunts them, and he realizes that, he is scared, tired and hungry, and he just wants to be safe.
 * 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.)4 **

He warns his unwilling prey that if they refuse to hunt, he will give them to the giant, who has a different idea of games.
 * 16. How does Connell inspire fear without obvious bloodshed/grotesqueness.0 **
 * total 21/32 **