Plot Elements
The beginning of a story.
What is the exposition?
The place Rainsford was sailing to on his yacht.
What is Rio?
True or False: The Most Dangerous Game is non-fiction.
What is false?
Plot is a series of related ____________ that make up a story.
What is events?
The nickname of Zaroff's island.
What is Ship-Trap Island?
The part of the story that builds suspense and conflict.
What is the rising action?
The reason that Rainsford is sailing on his yacht in the Caribbean.
What is to hunt jaguars?
True or False: Zaroff knew that Rainsford was hiding in a tree on the first night.
What is true?
The interruption of a story to show past events is called a ______________.
What is flashback?
The number of traps that Rainsford sets.
What is three?
The big "AHA" moment, or turning point.
What is climax?
What is a gun shot?
The animal Rainsford says he must act like when he climbs the tree.
What is a cat?
Who are Rainsford and Zaroff?
The reason that Zaroff created his new "game".
What is boredom?
The two things that are typically introduced in the exposition.
What are setting and characters?
The character that helps us learn more about Rainsford at the beginning of the story.
Who is Whitney?
A timeline or a cookbook is an example of this literary term used to describe order.
What is chronological order?
Zaroff labels himself as "civilized" because he has _____________.
What is electricity?
Zaroff's original plan for Rainsford.
What is hunt with Zaroff?
The event that begins the rising action.
Zaroff recognizes Rainsford because of this specific reason.
What is Rainsford wrote a hunting book?
What are 1) game = sport 2) game = the animal you hunt?
The inciting event of "The Most Dangerous Game" is when ________________________.
What is "Rainsford falls off the yacht"?
The literary term that describes this Rainsford quote: "The world is made up of only two classes - the hunters, and the huntees."
What is foreshadowing?