Terms
The Most Dangerous Game
Elements of a Short Story
The Lottery
The Game continues...
Surprise
100

When the reader/audience knows something the character(s) in the story do not know

Dramatic Irony

100

The Island

Ship-Trap Island

100

Time and place

Setting

100

The murder weapon

Stones

100

An example of an external conflict (be specific)

Rainsford vs the sea; Rainsford vs the jungle; Rainsford vs Zaroff

100

Rainsford falls off the yacht. 

This is an example of.....

Conflict- man vs nature


200

Symbolism

When one thing is used to represent something else

200

True or false

Rainsford is a round and static character

False- round and dynamic

200

The main point of the story

Theme

200

The date

June 27th

200

Impending violence; Danger; Blood

The color red

200

Went to Georgetown, Harvard, and worked for the New York American newspaper.

The author- Richard Connell

300

Characterization

The way in which authors develop the personalities of their characters

300

Rainsford's adventures on the island fall where on the storytelling arc?

Rising Action

300

External and Internal

Conflict

300

The superstition surrounding the tradition

"Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon".

Bountiful harvest

300

"...the speeding yacht slapped him in the face and the salt water made him gag and strangle..."

Alliteration, Personification, Onomatopoeia

300

They were important to Russia's history- they were feared, and not afraid to use violence and guerilla warfare tactics to maintain order.   

Cossacks

400

Inciting Incident

The event that sets the central conflict in motion

400

The cause of Ivan's demise

The Uganda Knife Sling

400

Rainsford

Protagonist

400

What did Mr. Summers symbolize?

Change

400

Strange or mysterious, especially in an unsettling way

Uncanny

400

The combination of these two genres leads to a story with suspense, tension, panic, danger, and fear. 

Adventure & Gothic Fiction

500

____________ are used in stories to create deeper meaning.  

Literary devices 

500

The double meaning of "game"

Animals hunted for sport are often referred to as game

500

Zaroff

Antagonist

500

The theme

Don't blindly follow traditions

500

"Rainsford, reclining in a steamer chair, indolently puffed on his favorite brier." 

What does indolently mean?

wanting to avoid activity or exertion 

500

The original title of "The Most Dangerous Game"

"The Hounds of Zaroff"

600

Characters and setting are introduced

Exposition

600

"...and I've seen you pick off a moose moving in the brown fall bush at four hundred yards, but even you can't see four miles through a moonless _________ night".

Caribbean

600

Connell creates a dark and suspenseful atmosphere with the use of vivid imagery and intense action.

The tone of "The Most Dangerous Game"

600

Where was the black box kept the night before the lottery each year?

Mr. Summers safe at his coal company

600

Morality and Ethics are 2 _____________ explored in TMDG.

Themes

600

_________ symbolizes the uncivilized, violent part of Zaroff's mind, while the _________ symbolizes his refined, sensible state. 

Jungle; Chateau