The Most Dangerous Game
The Most Dangerous Game 2
Literary Devices
Vocabulary
Characters
100

What is the name of the island?

Ship-Trap Island

100
Why did Zaroff stop hunting non-human animals?
He was bored.
100

Hurl himself down like a panther

Simile

100

a person that eats another person

cannibal

100

How did Rainsford end up on the island?

He fell off the yacht when he dropped his cigar and swam to the island

200

Rainsford says the world is comprised of what two types of creatures? 

Hunters and huntees

200

When does Rainsford first realize he is going to be the prey? 

Zaroff tells him to join the hunt or become Ivan’s sport

200

An apprehensive night crawled by

Personification

200

tending to suggest an idea

suggestive

200

Who is the person that owns the island?

General Zaroff

300

What choices did Zaroff give his human prey?

To be hunted or to face Ivan

300

How does Zaroff justify his hunting of human beings?

Only the strong deserve to survive
300

The sea rumbled and hissed

Onomatopoeia 

300

traditional stories

lore

300
Name 3 characteristics to describe Ivan.

Dumb (can't speak); Deaf; Strong

400

What are 2 things that Zaroff does to show that he knows Rainsford is hiding in the tree?

He smiles and he blows cigarette smoke up towards the tree

400

How does Zaroff stock his island with humans to hunt?

He tricks ships into thinking there is a way to pass when there isn't so the rocks make the boats crash.

400

He lived a year in a minute.

Hyperbole

400

damage or ruin something

taint

400

Who was Rainsford sailing with on the yacht?

Whitney

500

What is the main characteristic that Zaroff wants the animals he hunts to have? (What does Zaroff want his prey to be able to do?)

Reason

500

What is one trap that Rainsford makes to try to catch Zaroff?

Malay man-catcher; Burmese Tiger pit

500

The Cossack was the cat, he was the mouse.

Metaphor

500

strength or determination

vigor
500

Name one way in which Zaroff is a hypocrite.

1. He claims to want a challenge yet sets up the game so he has many advantages. 

2. He pretends to be "civilized" yet he is a murderer.