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Most Dangerous Game
Assorted Short Stories
Literary Terms
Edgar Allen Poe
Romeo & Juliet
100
Name of the island where Rainsford is stranded.
What is Ship-Trap Island?
100
Ironically, the Sniper's last victim.
Who is his brother?
100
Comparing two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
100
One possible cause of Poe's death.
What is rabies or alcoholism?
100
Name of the city where the story is set.
What is Verona?
200
The general's "most dangerous game."
What are humans?
200
Country where "Cranes" is set.
What is Korea?
200
When you expect one thing to happen, but the opposite occurs.
What is situational irony?
200
Narrator's motive for killing the old man in "The Tell-Tale Heart."
What is his vulture eye or evil eye?
200
Number of times the Montagues and Capulets have disturbed the peace.
What is three?
300
Number of days a person must be hunted before being set free.
What is three?
300
Reason Roger tried to steal Ms. Jones' purse. (HINT: What did he want to buy for himself?)
What are blue suede shoes?
300
When we know something a character in the story doesn't know.
What is dramatic irony?
300
Type of wine Montressor claims he has in his catacombs in order to lure Fortunado.
What is amontillado?
300
"Prince of Cats"
Who is Tybalt?
400
What Rainsford does with the general's body after he kills him.
What is feed it to the dogs?
400
The "rescuers" seen at the end of "The Interlopers" were really these.
What are wolves?
400
The reason a character does what he/she does.
What is motivation or motive?
400
What Montressor claims Fortunado did to him which justifies revenge.
What is insulted him?
400
Name of the Friar who was supposed to deliver Friar Lawrence's letter to Romeo.
Who is Friar John?
500
Name of the trap Rainsford sets which kills one of the general's best hunting dogs.
What is a Burmese tiger pit?
500
The main characters in "The Interlopers" had been fighting over this.
What is land?
500
When something can be interpreted/understood in more than one way.
What is ambiguity?
500
Sound the narrator compares the old man's heart beat to in "The Tell-Tale Heart."
What is a watch ticking in cotton?
500
At the end of the play, the Prince claims "All are _______."
What is punished?