Grammar
Literary Devices
Edgar Allan Poe
Most Dangerous Game
Narrative Writing
100

This part of speech is a person, place, thing, or idea.

What is a noun?

100

When an author starts many words in a phrase with the same letter, this is called?

What is "alliteration"?

100

Edgar Allan Poe is famous for his stories about what?

What is horror/suspense?
100

In "The Most Dangerous Game", what was the setting?

What is Ship-Trap Island?

100

All narratives must have a beginning, a middle, and a what?

What is an end?

200

This part of speech describes a verb. These often end in -ly.

What is an adverb?

200

When an author uses the same word or phrase over and over, the literary device being used is?

What is "repetition"?

200

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

Who is Lenore?

200

Who were the main characters in "The Most Dangerous Game"?

Who are General Zaroff and Rainsford?

200

Name one story element of a narrative.

What is the plot, characters, or setting?

300

This part of speech takes the place of a noun. (Ex: They/Them)

What is a pronoun?

300

When an author provides a warning about a future event, it is called?

What is foreshadowing?

300
"Amontillado" is a type of what?

What is wine?

300

Rainsford and Zaroff hunting each other is the main what in "The Most Dangerous Game"?

What is conflict?
300

In the climax of a story, the characters face the what?

What is the conflict or problem?
400

This part of speech is a word that connects sentences, phrases, or clauses. (Not this, but that.)

What is a conjunction?

400

What is the pattern of rhyme in a poem? (The rhyme "blank")

What is "rhyme scheme"?

400

Poe's greatest fear was...?

What is being buried alive?

400

In "The Most Dangerous Game", what happens in the resolution?

What is Rainsford survives and sleeps in Zaroff's bed?

400

The falling action is what number on a plot diagram?

What is fourth?

500

This part of speech shows relationships between a noun/pronoun and another word within a clause. (Ex: About, Around, Under, Through)

What is a preposition?

500

What are the three types of irony?

What are Dramatic, Verbal, and Situational?

500

Provide an example of irony in "The Cask of Amontillado"?

Varying Answers

500

Who wrote "The Most Dangerous Game"?

Who is Richard Connell?

500

Another name for "resolution" is what?

What is the "denouement"?