The moment when Rainsford appears behind the curtain in Zaroff's room.
What is the climax?
100
The message of this story is that war can cause people to be placed in conflict and force them to do inhumane things.
What is the theme?
100
Rainsford vs. Zaroff
What is man vs. man conflict?
100
Relationship of the story to the story
What is point of view?
100
The side the main character was on in "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge".
What is the South/Confederacy?
200
A rooftop in Ireland during the Civil War in the 1920's.
What is the setting?
200
The name "Ship Trap" Island is a sign that Whitney and Rainsford may be headed for danger.
What is foreshadowing?
200
The Sniper struggles with the aftermath of having killed his enemy (his brother).
What is man vs. himself?
200
The narrator is outside the story (like in "The Most Dangerous Game") and can reveal the thoughts of one character.
What is third person limited?
200
This in "The Most Dangerous Game" can be described as suspenseful and mysterious.
What is the mood?
300
This story ends with the main character hanging.
What is "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"?
300
The reader wonders what is going to happen to Fahrquhar as he swims in the river and dodges bullets.
What is suspense?
300
Rainsford vs. the swamp
What is man vs. nature?
300
The narrator is inside the story, and we only know his thoughts and feelings.
What is 1st person?
300
The sea on which Rainsford and Whitney were sailing.
What is the Caribbean?
400
The sniper turns the dead man over and realizes that the man he shot was his brother.
What is resolution?
400
All three of the stories that we have read have this in common (think about the ending).
What is irony?
400
Fahrquhar struggling with the river
What is man vs. nature?
400
Narrator uses "you" and addresses the reader
What is second person point of view?
400
The name of one of the two minor characters in "The Most Dangerous Game?"
Who is Ivan or Whitney?
500
The conversations with Zaroff, the hunting, the making of the traps are all part of this (think the plot diagram).
What is the rising action?
500
He is described as "a tall man past middle age, for his hair was a vivid white; but his thick eyebrows and pointed military mustache were as black as the night."
Who is Zaroff?
500
The two main conflicts that you can have in a story. Think about the classification.
What are external and internal conflicts?
500
The narrator is outside of the story, but we get to know every character's thoughts and feelings.
What is 3rd person omniscient?
500
How the main character felt after he killed the opposing sniper.