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 * __Questions__**

1. What is meant by “He lived a year in a minute”? /2 2. What is meant by “I am still a beast at bay”? /2 3. In which sea has Connell set Ship-Trap island? /1 4. How is Zaroff able to finance his life style? /2 5. If Rainsford wins the hunt, what does Zaroff promise him? /1 6. What happened to Lazarus? /2 7. Where does Rainsford spend the first night of his hunt? /1 8. How many acres did Zaroff’s father have in the Crimea? /1 9. Why does Zarroff suggest Rainsford wear moccasins? /1 10. What caused Rainsford to believe Zaroff knew he was hiding in the tree? Do you think he was right? Give reasons. /3 11. How does Zaroff stock his island with “game”? /2 12. What happened to General Zaroff at the end of the story? /2 13. Inspite of being hurt, Zaroff congratulates Rainsford on his “Malay mancatcher,” why? /2 14. How do we know Rainsford is an exceptionally fit man? /2 15. Discuss the state of mind of Rainsford before he lands on the island versus that after he meets the General. What is different? (Especially about how he perceives animal feelings.)/5 16. How does Connell inspire fear without obvious bloodshed/grotesqueness. /3
 * He was extremely nervous that the General would find his pit in the ground, so the time he spent waiting for the general to fall for his trap felt like it was going slower then it actually was. **
 * It's meant that he is still dangerous and doesn't feel like the it's over yet.**
 * The Caribbean is the sea which Connell has set the island**
 * He is able to do it because he heavily invested in American securities.**
 * Zaroff promised that Rainsford won the hunt he would be let free on the mainland near a town.**
 * Lazarus followed a guy Zaroff was hunting into the swamps and got stuck in the quicksand and died.**
 * He spent his first night of the hunt by hiding in a tree.**
 * His father had a quarter of a million acres in Crimea.**
 * He suggested it because moccasins leave a poorer trail and that he wanted his prey to be harder to catch.**
 * He was right because the general walked around the tree examining it and he exhaled smoke to see if he would react to it.**
 * He stocked his island by making ships crash into rocks near the island so the survivors swim to his island, and catches them and make them get good food and exercise just to get them healthy so he can hunt them down on his island.**
 * General Zaroff thinks he won, but then Rainsford comes back and they have a final showdown. Then General Zaroff dies.**
 * He congratulated him because Rainsford is actually giving a challenge to him and that Rainsford almost won the game.**
 * We know because he is able to swim to the island after he fell off his ship and that he was able to keep ahead of the dogs when they were chasing him.**
 * Before Rainsford landed on the island, he didn't care how his prey felt when he was hunting, but now after he was hunted he can empathize with his prey since he knows how it feels on the other side of the gun.**
 * He did it through the way he made his characters talked, the way he described their actions, and let us make the assumptions of what happens in the story. **

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 * Short Stories - Literary Devises Title: __The Most Dangerous Game__ **

Point of View: **Third person**

Protagonist: **Rainsford** What type of character is the Protagonist? Antagonist: **General Zaroff**
 * Round and Dynamic**

Describe the setting:
 * Ship-Trap Island on the Caribbean sea in the 1920's or so, the mood is dangerous.**

Type of Conflict: **Man V.S Man**

Describe the main conflict:
 * The main conflict is that General Zaroff wants to feel the thrill of hunting something that can outwit him.**

Describe the climax:
 * The climax is when Rainsford comes back and challenges Zaroff to one last showdown in the end.**

How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story?
 * He changes by not caring how the animals he hunted felt in the beginning to knowing how it feels like to be hunted and saying that hunting isn't fun for the person or animal that's being hunted.**

Describe the relationship between the title and the theme.
 * The title was giving us a hint about how the theme would be about a dangerous game.**

How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme?
 * The main conflict helps illustrate the theme by letting Rainsford see what it's like to be what it was like to be the one that was being hunted, so he knew what it was like ot be on both sides of the gun and it allowed it to feel empathetic to the game he hunted.**

How does the climax help to illustrate the theme?
 * It helped illustrate the theme by showing what a cornered animal would feel like and how it would attack even though we think it's over.**

Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes):

Simile:
 * "Tomorrow you'll feel like a new man, I'll wager ." **

Metaphor:
 * " I have played the fox, now I must play the cat of the fable."**

Personification:
 * " ...the dead tree, delicately adjusted to rest on the cut living one..."**

Symbol:
 * Gun was a symbol of death. **

Foreshadowing (give both elements):
 * There was a lot of foreshadowing in this story. Once hearing about General Zaroffs disastrous game, we the readers would expect the game to be played on Rainsford. **

Irony:
 * Rainsford was a famous hunter but when he went to the island he became the one that was hunted.**

Imagery: **"The dining room to which Ivan conducted him was in many ways remarkable. There was a medieval magnificence about it; it suggested a baronial hall of feudal times with its oaken panels, its high ceiling, its vast refectory tables where twoscore men could sit down to eat."**

Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story.
 * The relationship between the class theme and the story is that we as humans only think about ourselves until we know how it feels like to be another persons shoes. **

** completion 5/5 ** ** effort 4.5/5 ** ** content 4/5 ** ** total 13.5/15 **