Characters
The protagonist of the story
Who is Rainsford?
Name of the Island which Rainsford washes up on after falling of the yacht
What is Ship-Trap island?
Rainsford jumping off the cliff into the ocean in an attempt to escape Zaroff
What is the rising action
"Bleak darkness was blacking out the sea and jungle when Rainsford sighted the lights. He came upon the as he turned a crook in the coastline, and his first thought was that he had come upon a village, for there many lights. But as he forged along he saw to his great astonishment that all the lights were in one enormous building- a lofty structure with pointed towers plunging upward into the gloom."
What is imagery
Person who won the most dangerous game
Who is Rainsford?
The fellow hunter who Rainsford talks on the yacht
Who is Whitney
The story takes place around the time of this major war
What is World War I?
Dialogue and events that take place on the yacht
What is the exposition
"'The old charts call it 'Ship-Trap Island,'" Whitney replied. 'A suggestive name, isn't it? Sailors have a curious dread of the place. I don't know why. Some superstition--'"
What is foreshadowing
The author of the most dangerous game
Who is Richard Cornell
The disability General Zaroff's assistant, Ivan, is afflicted with
What is muteness
The type of building structure Rainsford first sees when he arrives on the island
What is a castle?
Rainsford and General Zaroff duel, and Rainsford is victorious
What is the climax
Rainsford, a hunter himself, suddenly finds himself on the other side of the barrel, as the pray.
What is irony
The place Zaroff had warned about, and Rainsford eventually finds, is filled with quicksand
What is Death Swamp
The ethnicity of General Zaroff and Ivan
What is Russian Cossack?
The region, north of South America, the story takes place in
What is the Caribbean?
The time in between Rainsford killing Zaroff and Rainsford sleeping in the most comfortable bed
General Zaroff explains to Rainsford how we lures men into his island and hunts them down as a game, then goes on to say, "I have electricity. We try to be civilizzed here."
What is irony
The ordinary object that Rainsford refers to that indicates he had killed General Zaroff
What is a bed?
The war that Rainsford had experienced unimaginable violence in
What is World War I?
The story takes place around the time of this major event in history. HINT: Although plausible, it is not World War I, to this question at least.
What is the Russian Revolution?
Rainsford gets to sleep in the most comfortable bed he's ever slept in
What is the resolution?
"...it was set on a high bluff, and on three sides of it cliffs dived down to where the sea licked greedy lips in the shadows."
What is personification?
Zaroff's father had a quarter of a million acres of land here
Where is Crimea