Figurative Language Hyperbole, simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration
Vocabulary
Names
Miscellaneous
100
Who is the protagonist of the story?
Rainsford
100
Black as night
What is a simile?
100
The object of a chase or game
quarry
100
What is the name of the island?
Ship Trap Island
100
What does the introduction of the story include? (setting and characters)
Yacht, night time, Carribean, Rainsford and Whitney
200
Who is the antagonist of the story?
Zaroff
200
Fishy blue eyes
metaphor
200
Things that make life pleasant
amenities
200
What is the name of the sea that Whitney and Rainsford are on?
Caribbean
200
Who falls in the ocean?
Why?
Rainsford fell off grabbing for his pipe he dropped.
300
Who is deaf and dumb?
Ivan
300
Jagged jungle jutted out
alliteration
300
Failure; fiasco
debacle
300
What was the name of the first trap?
Malay Mancatcher
300
Who were the soldiers/supporters of Soviet Union that fought for the Czars? Ivan was one of them.
Cossacks
400
Who is the person on the ship with the protagonist when the story begins?
Whitney
400
Blood warm water
personification
400
Pointless; useless
futile
400
What was the name of the 2nd trap?
Burmese Tiger Pit
400
How does General Zaroff stock his island?
Zaroff says he "Let's the ocean and "gods" bring them to his island" - he creates fake channels and directs them to the jagged crags with his lighthouse.
500
Who is the author of the story?
Richard Connell
500
He lived a year in a minute.
Hyperbole
500
Making a home wherever you are
cosmopolite
500
What was the name of the 3rd trap?
Uganda Knife Trick
500
Who wins the game? EXPLAIN
Rainsford, swam to shore and hid behind curtains in Zaroff's bedroom. He waited for General Zaroff. The two fight and Rainsford win. The story ends with Rainsford sleeping in Zaroff's bed.