Vocabulary
Relating to physical or material comfort.
Amenity
Enthusiastic and motivated; passionate.
Zealous
Easy to talk to and pleasant.
Affable
This occurs when there is a feeling of excitement or anxious uncertainty.
Suspense
The antagonist in The Most Dangerous Game.
Who is General Zaroff?
An uneasy feeling because of principles or beliefs?
Scruple
Debacle
Can be felt.
Palpable
A mental or emotional struggle
Internal Conflict
The Most Dangerous Game is told from what point of view?
Third-person point of view.
Something that can be touched or felt.
Having no result; pointless.
Futile
Prey or what is being hunted.
Quarry
A struggle with an outside force, such as nature or another person.
External Conflict
The point in the story when Rainsford confronts General Zaroff in the room.
Climax of the story
Lacking experience - marked by simplicity.
Naive.
A strange or frightening animal or human figure.
A figure of speech used to compare one thing with another (example: He was as brave as a lion).
Simile
On an island in the Caribbean Sea after the Russian Revolution.
What is the SETTING of The Most Dangerous Game?
This character is often referred to as "the Cossack."
Ivan
To overlook, forgive, or dismiss.
Condone
A well-known and important person, someone who is influential.
Cosmopolite
A situation in novels where there is a contrast between reality and expectation. The actual meaning of the word is the opposite of what is stated.
Example: General Zaroff says, "I have electricity. We try to be civilized here."
Irony
The protagonist in The Most Dangerous Game.
Sanger Rainsford.
Lazarus, the dog, died in this location.
Death Swamp