The Most Dangerous Game
Figurative Language, Story, and Conflict
Theme, Comics, and RO's
Maus Ch1-3
Maus Ch 4-6
100

This Hunter is the Protagonist of The Most Dangerous Game

Who is Rainsford
100

This is the very first plot element in a story.

What is the Exposition

100

Besides character names and a short summary, what must every Reading Outline include in order to get full credit?

What is the Theme of the section you read?

100

This actor looks so much like Vladek that friends of Vladek called him "The Sheik" after a movie the actor was in.

Who was Rudolph Valentino?

100
This form of illegal trade was the only way Vladek could make money to feed his extended family after being released as a POW.

What is a Black Market?

200

This moment is the Climax of the story The Most Dangerous Game.

When was Rainsford leaping off a cliff into the sea?

200

This form of of Figurative Language compares two things in a statement that includes "Like" or "as".

What is a Simile? 

200

This is the format of phrasing in which all Themes must be presented.

What is a complete sentence (that does not specify details from the book)?

200

What was the Jewish annual Prayer day on which Vladek was told he would be released as a Prisoner of War

What is Parshas Truma?

200

This is a poor quality neighborhood, district, or town that people are forced to live in through political, economic, or violent pressure.

What is a Ghetto?

300

These are both reasons why General Zaroff began hunting human prey.

What are "Because hunting animals became boring" and "humans are interesting/dangerous because they can reason"?

300

This is the form of conflict in which characters who rebel against their government or social norms  find themselves.

What is Person Vs Society? 

300

These are the three ways to investigate a story's theme.

What are "Paying attention to Characters and their development, Conflict and how it resolves, and dialogue and how it communicates beliefs."

300

What were the reasons that Anja needed to get treatment from a Sanitarium?

What are Anxiety and Depression or Post Partum Depression? 

300

This is the part of the body upon which the artist focused his panels when Vladek identified each of the Jews lynched by the Nazis in the black market?

What are their feet?

400
This important moment in the Resolution of the story is not shown to the reader.

What is Rainsford killing Zaroff and winning the game?

400

This form of Figurative Language can be found in the following phrase:

"The Toon's Balloon was soon on the Moon."

What is Assonance?

400

This feature of comics contextualizes or comments on a panel, but it is not spoken or thought by anyone during the panel.

What is a Caption? 

400

These are the two reasons Art depicts Vladek's relationship with Lucia Greenburg, despite his father's wishes. 

What is "making the story more human and real"?

400

This is the reason why Vladek tells Anja that "To die is easy, you have to struggle for life. Until the last moment we struggle together. I need you! and you'll see that together we'll survive."

What is "Anja's suicidal depression upon hearing of the death of Richeu"?

500

This is the moment Rainsford finally "Knows how an animal at bay feels."

When is after he makes the knife trap with the sapling and/or while being chased by the dogs.

500

This is a type of story that contains one or more other stories within its narrative

What is a Frame Story?

500

This is Scott McCloud's definition of a comic.

What is "Juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence, intended to convey information and/or to produce an aesthetic response in the viewer".

500

This is how Art handles conflict between his father, Vladek, and his step-mother, Mala.

What is avoidance? 

500

This is the reason Art calls Vladek a murderer when the latter reveals he burned Anja's journals.

What is Art's anger at having his connection to his mother's experience destroyed.