“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