Recall
When an element of a story hints at future events, this is known as what?
Foreshadowing
What does the word "futile" mean as it is used in the sentence: "He saw that straight flight was futile."
Hopeless
Who is the author of "The Most Dangerous Game"?
Richard Connell
When does Rainsford first realizes he is going to be the prey?
Zaroff tells him to join the hunt or become Ivan’s sport
The general was saving him for another day's sport! The Cossack was the cat; he was the mouse. What type of figurative language is this?
Metaphor
What does the word "quarry" mean as it is used in the sentence: "the Cossack failed to see his quarry"?
Prey (something being hunted)
What is the genre of "The Most Dangerous Game"?
Fiction: Adventure
"Rainsford, crouching there, could not see the general, nor could he see the pit. He lived a year in a minute."
What type of figurative language is used here?
Hyperbole
The beginning of "The Most Dangerous Game" has a mood of dread. What is a synonym of "dread"?
Fear
What is a "Cossack"?
What choices did Zaroff give his human prey?
To be hunted or to face Ivan
"But the sharp eyes of the hunter stopped before they reached the limb where Rainsford lay; a smile spread over his brown face. Very deliberately he blew a smoke ring into the air; then he turned his back on the tree and walked carelessly away, back along the trail he had come."
Why did Zaroff smile?
He knew where Rainsford was.
General Zaroff had a dog named Lazarus, which is a reference to a biblical character. This is an example of what literary device?
Allusion
Zaroff claims that Rainsford’s ideas about the value of human life are “mid-Victorian.” What does he mean?
They are old-fashioned.
When does "The Most Dangerous Game" take place? Give an approximate time period. (Eg. the late 1990s.)
TMDG takes place in the early 1920s, shortly after the end of World War I.
Name three antagonists in "The Most Dangerous Game."
Zaroff, Ivan, dogs, or the island
How is Zaroff a hypocrite?
1. He believes in the "natural" subservience of certain men, yet constantly interferes with nature.
2. He claims to want a challenge yet sets up the game so he has many advantages.
3. He pretends to be "civilized" yet he is a murderer.
"Rainsford heard a sound. It came out of the darkness, a high screaming sound, the sound of an animal in an extremity of anguish and terror. He did not recognize the animal that made the sound; he did not try to; with fresh vitality he swam toward the sound. He heard it again; then it was cut short by another noise, crisp, staccato."
What type of literary device is this?
Foreshadowing
What does the word "knouter" mean as it is used in the following sentence:
"Ivan once had the honor of serving as an official knouter to the Great White Czar"?
Whip master (torture)
What inspired Connell to write "The Most Dangerous Game"?
1. His experiences in WW1
2. Big-game safari tours in Africa/South America that were popular in the 1920s