The Most Dangerous Game
What are the two main characters in the story?
Rainsford and General Zaroff
What is an apostrophe?
Use it in a sentence.
What are the 5 parts of a plot structure?
Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution
What is a flashback?
An event that shows something from the past
What is a simile?
When you compare two things using like or as
What were the criteria for Rainsford as he was being hunted? How many days did he have to survive?
He got a head start and had to survive for 3 days
What is a comma?
Use it in a sentence.
a punctuation mark (,) indicating a pause between parts of a sentence. It is also used to separate items in a list and to mark the place of thousands in a large numeral.
What is the difference between the rising and falling action?
Rising action leads up to the climax, falling is after
What is foreshadowing?
Double Jeopardy
An event that happens early on in a story, may be a hint to later events.
What is a metaphor?
When you compare two things NOT using like or as
How did Rainsford end up on the island?
He fell off his yacht trying to catch his pipe
What are the two ways an apostrophe is used?
Double Jeopardy
To combine two words or, to to show a possession
What is the Exposition?
The beginning of the story that introduces the characters, setting, and conflict
What is a theme?
What is Personification?
Giving something that isn’t human, human-like characteristics
What was a piece of foreshadowing in the story?
Hearing the "amimal" being killed. Rainsford talks about how the prey don't know what's going on, up to my interpretation.
What words need to be capitalized?
Proper nouns, beginning of sentences, and I
Where is the conflict in the plot structure?
Either in the exposition or right before the rising action
What is an inference?
Double Jeopardy
An educated guess with evidence to support it
What is onomatopoeia?
The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
How did Rainsford's attitude about hunting change from the beginning of the story to the end?
What is missing from this sentence? Double jeopardy if you can name them all.
I love to ride my bike its fun
I love to ride my bike, it's fun.
What is the climax?
What is symbolism?
When using an object or something of that nature to represent something.
What is a hyperbole?
An exaggerated statement that isn't supposed to be taken literally