The Most Dangerous Game
This is the name of the Caribbean island where General Zaroff hunts human prey.
What is Ship-Trap Island?
To buy Jim a Christmas present, Della cuts and sells this prized possession.
What is her hair?
It takes the Loisels this many years of hard labor and extreme hardship to pay off the debt for the replacement necklace.
What is 10 years?
Mary Maloney uses this frozen item as the murder weapon to kill her husband.
What is a leg of lamb?
Person or other being in a narrative.
What is a character?
Sanger Rainsford falls off his yacht and ends up on the island after attempting to retrieve this dropped object.
What is his pipe?
Jim sacrifices this heirloom object to buy Della a set of ornamental combs.
What is his gold pocket watch?
To replace the lost necklace, the Loisels buy a real diamond necklace for this amount of francs.
What is 36,000 francs?
Mary’s husband, Patrick Maloney, holds this line of work.
What is a police officer (or detective)?
Context that describes the elements in which the story takes place.
What is the setting?
Zaroff gives his human "prey" a three-hour head start, food, and this weapon.
What is a hunting knife?
Della receives this specific amount of money from Madame Sofronie in exchange for her hair.
What is $20?
At the end of the story, Mathilde learns that the original borrowed necklace was actually fake and worth at most this amount.
What is 500 francs?
To establish a solid alibi, Mary visits this location immediately after the murder.
What is the grocery store?
Problem that drives a story forward.
What is conflict?
Rainsford sets this trap—learned in Vietnam—which injures Zaroff’s shoulder.
What is the Malay Mancatcher?
O. Henry (the author) uses this literary technique when both characters sell their most valuable possessions to buy gifts that the other can no longer use.
What is situational irony?
Mathilde Loisel borrows a diamond necklace from this wealthy friend to wear to a high-society ball.
Who is Madame Forestier?
At the start of the story, Mary is eagerly awaiting her husband's return, and she is in this physical condition.
What is six months pregnant?
The central idea or message the author has for the audience.
What is theme?
At the end of the three-day hunt, Rainsford escapes Zaroff's hounds by taking this desperate action.
What is jumping off the cliff into the sea?
The narrator compares Jim and Della to these biblical figures who brought gifts to the baby Jesus.
What were the Magi?
Mathilde's husband works as a clerk for this government entity.
What is the Ministry of Public Instruction (Education)?
This type of irony occurs when the investigating officers eat the murder weapon while stating it is likely "right under our noses."
What is dramatic irony?
The beginning of a plotline where characters are introduced, the setting is established, and the reader gains their first impression of the purpose behind the story.
What is Exposition?