Grammar
Narrative Writing
The Most Dangerous Game
The Cask of Amontillado
Random English Knowledge
100
This part of speech describes a person, place, thing, or idea.

What is a noun?

100
All narrative writing has a beginning, a middle, and a blank?

What is an end?

100

What is the setting of "The Most Dangerous Game?"

What is Ship-Trap Island?

100

Who wrote "The Cask of Amontillado"?

Who is Edgar Allan Poe?

100

When a sentence contains many words beginning with the same letter, that sentence contains...?

What is alliteration?

200

This part of speech describes a verb.

What is an adverb?

200

What plot structure term comes at the beginning of a story?

What is the exposition?

200

Who are the two main characters in "The Most Dangerous Game"?

Who are Rainsford and Zaroff?
200

Who are the main characters in "The Cask of Amontillado?"

Who are Montresor and Fortunato?

200

In "The Raven", what is the name of Poe's lost love?

Who is Lenore?

300

This part of speech takes the place of a noun.

What is a pronoun?

300

In this part of the story, the characters face the main conflict.

What is the climax?

300

What is the central conflict of "The Most Dangerous Game"?

What is Rainsford and Zaroff hunting each other?

300

What is "amontillado"?

What is wine?

300

This part of speech connects sentences, phrases, or clauses. Think FANBOYS.

What is a conjunction?

400

This part of speech expresses feeling. Ugh?! Why do I have to take this test?

What is an interjection?

400

The falling action is what section on a plot diagram? (Think numbers.)

What is four?
400

Who is Rainsford's hunting partner in "The Most Dangerous Game?"

Who is Whitney?
400

Why does Montresor invite Fortunado into the vault?

What is to take revenge on him?

400

Name the three types of irony.

What are verbal, situational, and dramatic.

500

This part of speech connects a noun/pronoun to a verb/adjective. What is that "in the hallway"?

What is a preposition?

500

Another name for the resolution is the ...?

What is the "denouement"?

500

Who is the author of "The Most Dangerous Game"?

Who is Richard Connell?

500

What is the literary device where an author provides a warning about a future event?

What is foreshadowing?

500

If you've used verbal irony incorrectly, and another person becomes offended, what did you accidentally use?

What is sarcasm?