Elements of Plot
Characterization
Setting
"The Most Dangerous Game" Reading Comprehension
Vocabulary
100
The turning point of the story; usually when the protagonist comes face to face with the conflict and experiences a change of some sort.
What is the climax?
100
Shallow characters without many believable, true-to-life qualities.
What are flat characters?
100
A Caribbean island.
What is "The Most Dangerous Game"?
100
Zaroff's dog who died in a trap set by Rainsford.
Who is Lazarus?
100
A communal dining hall.
What is a refectory?
200
The part of the plot when story comes to a reasonable ending.
What is the resolution or denouement?
200
Character who does not change in the course of a story.
What is a static character?
200
In a mostly empty boarding house in Manhattan.
What is "A Ghost Story"?
200
Zaroff was "laid up for six months" after this animal attacked him.
What is the Cape Buffalo?
200
Wanting to avoid activity or exertion.
What is indolent?
300
The events that follow the climax, where we see how actions that took place during the climax turned out.
What is the falling action?
300
When the author develops a character through conversations and speech.
What is indirect characterization through dialogue?
300
An apartment in Harlem.
What is "Thank You, M'am"?
300
Where Rainsford spends the first night of his hunt.
What is in a tree?
300
A useful feature of a building.
What is an amenity?
400
The part of a story where the conflict develops and additional conflicts or problems may arise.
What is the rising action?
400
When the author develops a character's personality by stating his or her character traits.
What is direct characterization?
400
In Maryland in the mid-1800s.
What is "I Would Rather Die"?
400
The age at which Zaroff got his first gun.
What is five years old?
400
No longer in a natural state.
What is cultivated?
500
The part of a story when the characters, setting, and conflict are generally introduced.
What is the exposition?
500
When an author describes a character by explaining how the character looks.
What is indirect characterization through physical appearance?
500
In the woods in autumn.
What is "The Road Not Taken"?
500
Rainsford's first name.
What is Sanger?
500
Cut or tear irregularly.
What is lacerate?
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