Poe Vocab #2
beg someone earnestly or desperately to do something.
What is: Implore?
The author of The Most Dangerous Game
Who is: Richard Connell?
When the poem takes place.
What is: December?
The number of gun shots Rainsford hears before falling off the boat.
What is: 3?
What Jessie whispered to Winnie toward the end of "Tuck Everlasting"
What is: "Remember"?
dwell on one's own success or another's misfortune
What is: Gloat?
Falls off a boat reaching for his pipe, swims for a nearby island... ends up being hunted by a maniac!
Who is: Rainsford?
Who the narrator ponders over.
Who is: Lenore?
The number of days a man has to elude Zaroff to win the "game"
What is: 3?
Dictates what the paragraph is going to be about.
What is: Topic Sentence?
sadness or depression of mind or spirit
What is: Melancholy?
Hunts people for sport.
Who is: General Zaroff?
The raven's only answer.
What is: Nevermore?
The name of the "evil" island that the sailors fear.
What is: Ship-Trap Island?
The first painful memory Jonas receives.
What is: a sunburn?
lacking in courage; cowardly
What is: Craven?
General Zaroff's assistant. A gigantic creature.
Who is: Ivan?
What the narrator calls the raven when he grows angry.
What is: thing of evil?
Why Zaroff thinks humans are the most impressive game to hunt.
What is: their ability to reason?
What Jonas thinks he hears on his way down the hill in Chapter 23.
What is: music?
(of a place) deserted of people and in a state of bleak and dismal emptiness.
What is: Desolate?
Rainsford’s friend and traveling companion... feels anxious as they sail near the mysterious Ship-Trap Island.
Who is: Whitney?
Where the raven is at the end of the poem.
Where is: still on the bust... staring down at the narrator?
Zaroff: "Your brain against mine. Your woodcraft against mine. Your strength and stamina against mine. Outdoor _____________!"
(think strategic games)
What is: chess?
The figure of speech represented in the sentence “He was sweating like a racehorse”
What is: simile?