Vocabulary
The Necklace
The Most Dangerous Game
Literary Terms
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The definition of conclude.
What is a word that means "to finish or to come to an opinion"?
100
The author of The Necklace....
Who is Guy de Maupassant?
100
The main character of the story. He is a famous hunter who was shipwrecked on an island....and found his life in jeopardy.
Who is Sanger Rainsford?
100
The time and place of a story....sometimes descriptive, sometimes vague.
What is the setting?
100
The definition of comprehend.
What is "to understand"?
200
The definition of notorious
What is "famous for a bad reason"?
200
The setting of The Necklace (both time and place).
What is Paris, France in the 1800s?
200
The Cossack who was bored with hunting and invented a new game.
Who is General Zaroff?
200
A summary of the story....what happened.
What is the plot?
200
The definition of verify.
What is "to check or to prove"?
300
The definition of assess/
What is "to test or evaluate"?
300
The main character of The Necklace. She was a middle-class woman, unhappy with her life, until she loses some borrowed jewelry.
Who is Madame Loisel?
300
A Cossack who was both deaf and dumb. He had a black-beard down to his waste and worked as the general's assistant.
Who is Ivan?
300
The main message of the story.....why the author took his time to write this story on paper.
What is the theme?
300
The definition of equivalent.
What is "equal in worth or the same"?
400
The definition of fluctuate.
What is "to change continuously"?
400
Even small things can change your life. (the invitation, the necklace, the dress) Be happy with what you have.
What is the theme of The Necklace?
400
The setting of The Most Dangerous Game.
What is Ship-Trap Island?
400
The main character of the story.
What is the protagonist?
400
The definition of principle.
What is "law, truth or the main one"?
500
The definition of infrastructure.
What is "the foundation or base"?
500
A secondary character---a woman who loaned her "fake" diamond necklace to Mme. Loisel. She never knew about the loss.
Who is Madame Forestier?
500
The author of the Most Dangerous Game.
Who is Richard Connell?
500
A literary term describing when something happens that was not expected to happen.
What is irony?
500
The definition of feasible.
What is "capable or possible"?
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