The Most Dangerous Game
The Interlopers
The Monkey's Paw
Literary Terms/Character Vocab
Plot Diagram
100

The antagonist in the story

Who is General Zaroff

100

The setting of the story

What is the Carpathian Mountains

100
The first wish made on the paw and whether or not it was granted

What is they wished for 200 pounds and received it as compensation for the death of their son

100

A comparison that uses the words like and as

What is a simile

100

The resolution/denouement of The Most Dangerous Game

What is Rainsford defeating General Zaroff

200

What Rainsford finds out about General Zaroff

What is he hunts humans for fun/sport

200

A theme in the story (related to stubbornness of the characters and what they had to put aside)

What is pride
200

What happened to the first man to use the monkey's paw

What is he wished for death as his final wish

200

The definition of conflict in a story

What is the problem that the characters are trying to overcome

200

The climax (most intense moment) of The Monkey's Paw

What is when Mr. White is hurrying to find the paw and make his final wish before Mrs. White opens the door

300

Where Rainsford's ship was initially headed and why

What is Rio, to go hunting

300

What causes Ulrich to start acting differently

What is getting trapped under a tree and close to death
300
How Herbert dies in the story
What is crushed by machinery at work
300

Clues that hint to something that is going to happen later in the story

What is foreshadowing

300

The exposition of The Most Dangerous Game

What is Rainsford and Whitney on a ship in the Caribbean, heading to Rio

400

The name of the island General Zaroff lives on

What is Ship Trap Island

400

Which war this story was based off of

What is World War I

400

What Mrs. White forces Mr. White to do 10 days after Herbert's death

What is wish for Herbert to be alive again

400

The overall feeling or spirit of a work

What is the mood

400

Turning point in the story of The Interlopers

What is when Ulrich presents a peace offering and they agree to be friends 

500
Who greets Rainsford at the door, and what they are holding 

Who is Ivan, holding a revolver

500

The orders Ulrich had given his men

What is to follow behind him in 10 minutes

500

The person who brings the paw to the White family

Who is Sergeant-Major Morris

500

The term for a character who changes or grows over the course of a story

What is a dynamic character

500

The falling action in The Most Dangerous Game

What is when Zaroff thinks he won, eats dinner, and heads to his bedroom

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