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Plot
"The Most Dangerous Game"
Literary Elements 1
Conflict
Literary Elements 2
100
This is the turning point of a story, when the reader finds out what the outcome of the main conflict is going to be.
What is Climax?
100
He is the protagonist of "The Most Dangerous Game." He falls off a yacht and wakes up on Ship-trap Island.
Who is Sanger Rainsford?
100
A device that compares to unlike things using "like" or "as"
What is Simile?
100
This type of conflict involves a character struggling against an outside force
What is External Conflict?
100
Describes works that largely come from the imagination of the writer (literary genre)
What is Fiction?
200
This part of a story is the introduction; it provides background information and introduces characters, the conflict, and the setting.
What is Exposition?
200
He is a flat character in "The Most Dangerous Game." We don't know much about him. All we do know is he is on a yacht with Rainsford heading to Rio.
Who is Whitney?
200
An author's attitude toward his or her subject matter
What is Tone?
200
This type of conflict involves a character who intellectually or emotionally struggles with himself
What is man v. himself?
200
The excitement of wanting to know what happens next that keeps readers interested in the story
What is Suspense?
300
The part of a story when the main character tries to solve the main conflict and instead, encounters more problems--more complications.
What is Rising Action?
300
He is a character described as large and deaf. He is the general's assistant.
Who is Ivan?
300
A figure of speech in which an animal, an object, a force of nature, or an idea is given human characteristics
What is Personification?
300
This type of conflict involves a character who physically struggles with another character
What is man v. man?
300
This literary work is much shorter than a novel and can usually be read in one sitting
What is a Short Story?
400
This is the closing of the story.
What is the Resolution?
400
He is the antagonist of the story. He hunts humans.
Who is General Zaroff?
400
A figure of speech that compares two seemingly unlike things
What is Metaphor?
400
This involves a character struggling against an outside forces (man vs. nature, man vs. man, and man vs. society)
What is External Conflict?
400
This is the person who tells the story
What is the Narrator?
500
This is the point in the story when all the struggles are over and the ausience knows what is going to happen to the people in the story.
What is Falling Action?
500
"'He had never slept in a better bed,' Rainsford decided" describes this part of the plot.
What is the Resolution?
500
Descriptive language that appeals to one or more of the five senses
What is Imagery?
500
This type of conflict involves a character who struggles with a natural phenomenon
What is man v. nature?
500
A technique used to hint at what will happen later in a story
What is Foreshadowing?