"Most Dangerous" Reading Comp.
An example is: “Ugh! The air is like moist black velvet”
Similie
Rainsford falls overboard, swims to shore, and makes it to General Zarrof's mansion on the island
What is the rising action?
The revolver pointed as rigidly as if the giant were a statue.
Similie
The part where Rainsford is having a conversation with sailors on the yatch
the exposition.
The Cossack was the cat; he was the mouse”
Metaphor
Rainsford gets to sleep in the most comfortable bed...
the resolution
Who is the author of "The Most Dangerous Game?"
Richard Connell
“Ten minutes of determined effort brought another sound to his ears – the most welcome he had ever heard – the muttering and growling of the sea breaking on a rocky shore”
Personification.
Rainsford discovers that General Zarrof lives on this island specifcally to hunt humans
What is the climax?
What is the name of the first trap Rainsford built that successfully injured Zarrof by having a large dead tree fall on his shoulder? (Bonus points if you know where he learned to make this trap!)
The Malay Mancatcher
(from Malacca)
According to Rainsford, the world is made up of the ______and the _______
Hunters and Hunted
(Strong or Weak)
An example is, "He lived a year in a minute."
Hyperbole