Figurative Language
Academic Vocabulary
Plot of "The Most Dangerous Game"
The Odyssey
The Odyssey continues
100
She is as light as a feather.
What is a simile
100
The time and place of the novel.
What is the setting?
100
Rainsford and Whitney are travelling to hunt in the Amazon.
What is Exposition?
100
A long, wandering journey
What is an Odyssey?
100
The protagonist of 'The Odyssey".
Who is Odysseus?
200
The sun smiled down on us.
What is personification
200
The main character in the story is called this.
What is the protagonist.
200
Rainsford falls off the yacht and swims to the island.
What is the rising action?
200
Polyphemus
Who is the one-eyes monster
300
That man is a pig.
What is a metaphor.
300
The sequence of events in a piece of literature.
What is the plot?
300
Zaroff decides to hunt Rainsord.
What is the conflict or climax?
300
Goddess who helps Odysseus
Who is Athena
400
Patricia Piluk from Pennsylvania
What is an alliteration.
400
These three things make up a theme statement.
What is the title, the author, the genre and the theme.
400
Rainsford makes three traps, one of which kills Ivan.
What is the falling action?
400
Poseidon
Who is the King of the Seas, brother to Zeus
400
Whirlpool monster.
Who is Charybdis?
500
The wind rustled through the last of the leaves.
What is imagery.
500
Difference between what is expected to happen and what actually happens.
What is irony?
500
Rainsford sleeps in Zaroff's excellent bed.
What is the resolution?
500
Helped Odysseus build a raft.
Who is Calypso
500
Athena disguises Odysseus as this to keep his identity from the suitors.
What is an old man?