TMDG
Rainsford's excellent skills of swimming to Ship-trap Island is an example of which literary device?
1. Foreshadowing
What is the original bet between the lawyer and banker about?
11. Whether capital punishment or life imprisonment is better.
Which following passage from the text BEST describes how Omelas is illustrated in the first half?
A. “They did not use swords, or keep slaves. They were not barbarians, I do not know the rules and laws of their society, but I suspect that they were singularly few.”
B. “The joy built upon successful slaughter is not the right kind of joy; it will not do; it is fearful and it is trivial.”
C. “The faces of small children are amiably sticky; in the benign gray beard of a man a couple of crumbs of rich pastry are entangled. The youths and girls have mounted their horses and are beginning to group around the starting line of the course."
D. “In the silence of the broad green meadows one could hear the music winding throughout the city streets, farther and nearer and ever approaching, a cheerful faint sweetness of the air from time to time trembled and gathered together and broke out into the great joyous clanging of the bells.”
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D.
"An evil place can, so to speak, broadcast vibrations of evil."
5. Personification
The title of "The Most Dangerous Game" illustrates which literary device?
3. Foreshadowing
What is Zaroff's character type?
7. Flat-static
What change does the lawyer undergo by the end of the story?
15. He changes spiritually and rejects material wealth.
What is the biggest theme of "Omelas?"
30. Happiness always comes with a price, through sacrifice, struggle, or suffering.
"He (the lawyer) will take away my last farthing, marry, enjoy life, gamble on the Exchange, and I will look on like an envious beggar and hear the same words from him every day."
Simile
What literary device helps tell the story of how the bet came to be?
12. Flashback
What is the biggest plot twist of TMDG?
6. Zaroff revealing that he hunts people.
How is it ironic that the lawyer has learned many (6) languages during his captivity, and what subtype of irony is this?
14. He learned new languages but has no one to speak with to use them, cosmic
What is the character type for the ones who walk away from Omelas?
28. Flat-dynamic: the ones who "walk away" from Omelas in the story do not have much characterization, but still change in that they choose to leave the utopia of Omelas.
What is the genre for each of our 3 short stories? (TMDG, The Bet, Omelas)
TMDG: Action-thriller
The Bet: Realistic fiction
Omelas: Fantasy
What was the plot twist about Omelas that was revealed halfway through the story?
24. Omelas' happiness depends on the suffering of one child locked away in a basement in the city.
Zaroff and Ivan being a reference to Cossacks from eastern-Europe is an example of which literary device?
9. Allusion
A. What is ironic about what happens to the banker after 15 years?
B. What is ironic about the lawyer being isolated during the bet?
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A. A banker goes bankrupt.
B. A lawyer goes to "jail."
How does the "thing" deal with the concept of utilitarianism?
26. The "thing" suffers for the greater good of Omelas' happiness.
What was the most significant metaphor in "The Most Dangerous Game?"
10. Rainsford was the jaguar/prey he thought so lowly of.
Juxtapose the "thing" that was revealed in the second part of the city Omelas itself. How do they contrast?
25. The city is happy and thriving, while the "thing" is sad and suffering.
What qualities of Zaroff juxtapose/contrast his fascination with hunting people?
4. His politeness and hosting skills.
What is ironic about the lawyer's view of life at the end of the story?
20. At the end, he find life to be pointless - despite advocating for life/life imprisonment in the beginning.
Who is the protagonist of "Omelas?"
23. The reader.
"His reading suggested he was a man swimming in the sea among the wreckage of his ship" is which type of figurative language?
17. Metaphor
The banker's decision to kill the lawyer is what main type of irony?
19. Dramatic irony