Word of the Day
Extremely tiring or demanding; exhausting
Grueling
Uses the words “like” or “as” to compare one object or idea with another to suggest they are alike.
Example: busy as a bee.
Simile
The protagonist of the story who wins the most dangerous game.
Rainsford
A person, place or thing.
Noun
When an author refers to the events or characters from another story in her own story with the hopes that those events will add context or depth to the story she's trying to tell.
Example: Dumbo, pinocchio, David vs. Goliath
Allusion
Living the life of a traveler; wandering
Nomadic
States a fact or draws a verbal picture by the use of comparison. Does not use like or as.
Example: You are what you eat.
Metaphor
The antagonist of the story who loses the most dangerous game.
General Zaroff
A word used in the place of a noun.
Pronoun
A literary device wherein the author depicts the occurrence of specific events to the reader, which have taken place before the present time the narration is following, or events that have happened before the events that are currently unfolding in the story.
Flashback
One’s opponent in a contest, conflict or dispute
Adversary
The use of a word to describe or imitate a natural sound or the sound made by an object or an action.
Example: snap crackle pop
Onomatopoeia
Zaroff's henchman who is deaf and mute. He is killed by Rainsford by a trap.
Ivan
A word that expresses an action.
Verb
The highest or most intense point in the development or resolution of a story.
Ex. When Johnny dies and the rumble happens in The Outsiders.
Climax
Able to be touched or felt
Palpable
The repetition of the same initial letter, sound, or group of sounds in a series of words. Alliteration includes tongue twisters.
Example: She sells seashells by the seashore.
Alliteration
The name of the island General Zaroff lives and plays his most dangerous game.
Ship Trap Island
A word that modifies a noun or pronoun.
Adjective
A literary device wherein the author uses specific words and phrases that exaggerate or overemphasize a point.
Ex. I'm as hungry as a horse.
Hyperbole
To draw a line under; to emphasize or state the importance of something
Underscore
A figure of speech in which human characteristics are given to an animal or an object.
Example: My teddy bear gave me a hug.
Personification
Rainsford and his friend Whitney are traveling to the Amazon Rainsford by boat to hunt this animal before Rainsford falls off the boat.
Jaguar
A word that modifies or describes a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.
Adverb
The attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience.
Ex. Upset, bitter, depressing, exciting.
Tone