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1. What is meant by “He lived a year in a minute”? /2 Rainsford made a trap for the general and he wanted the general to come and fall for this trap.

2. What is meant by “I am still a beast at bay”? /2 Rainsford says this when general Zaroff congratulates him for beating the general in the hunting game, but now that Rainsford knows how the hunted feels, he wants to get this “game” over and done with.

3. In which sea has Connell set Ship-Trap island? /1 Ship-Trap island was in Caribbean Sea.

4. How is Zaroff able to finance his lifestyle? /2 After the Revolution in of 1917 in Moscow, he left the country and invested heavily on American securities.

5. If Rainsford wins the hunt, what does Zaroff promise him? /1 If Rainsford wins the hunt, Zaroff will willingly accept his defeat and his sloop will place Rainsford on the closest mainland.

6. What happened to Lazarus? /2 Lazarus was one of Zaroff’s finest hound, but he was caught in the big swamp in the southeast corner of the island.

7. Where does Rainsford spend the first night of his hunt? /1 In the first night of the hunt, he climbed up the tree into the crotch.

8. How many acres did Zaroff’s father have in the Crimea? /1 Zaroff’s father had quarter of a million acres in the Crimea.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">9. Why does Zaroff suggest Rainsford wear moccasins? /1 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Zaroff suggests Rainsford to wear moccasins because they leave poorer trail, and he wants to challenge himself more.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10. What caused Rainsford to believe Zaroff knew he was hiding in the tree? Do you think he was right? Give reasons. /3 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rainsford knew that it was easy to follow the trail in the woods, and saw a big smile across his face. In my opinion, Zaroff didn’t see Rainsford because from my point of view, I think Zaroff only smiled because he was proud of Rainsford for fooling him in the first night. Also, if he did see Rainsford, why leave him alive and not shoot him? Therefore, I think Zaroff didn’t see Rainsford up in the tree.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">11. How does Zaroff stock his island with “game”? /2 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Zaroff uses lights to indicate the ships that there is a channel, where there is none. But instead, giant rocks with razor edges crush the ships.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">12. What happened to General Zaroff at the end of the story? /2 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">General Zaroff had lost in the end, and died.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">13. Inspite of being hurt, Zaroff congratulates Rainsford on his “Malay Mancatcher,” why? /2 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Zaroff have hunted many other men, but Rainsford was the first to make the trap “Malay Mancatcher” and make him fall into it.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">14. How do we know Rainsford is an exceptionally fit man? /2 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rainsford was able to climb a tree, run away from Zaroff, and dive from the edge of the cliff into the sea.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">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 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Before he met the General, he never cared about the feelings of the animals he hunted. As the cat of the hunt, he never care about the feelings of the mouse. Now that he was in the position of the mouse, he felt guilt for the animal he hunted and killed.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">16. How does Connell inspire fear without obvious bloodshed/grotesqueness. /3 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Author inspires fear just by giving us the idea of being hunted down, which causes us to use our imagination and fill our minds with all the bad things that we can think of. It is like an old horror movies. They never show us what the murderer, or ghosts look like, we create the image in our head.

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Short Stories - Literary Devises Title: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"> __The Most Dangerous Game .__

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Point of View: Omniscient

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Protagonist: Sanger Rainsford <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What type of character is the Protagonist? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Round/ Dynamic

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Antagonist: General Zaroff

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Describe the setting The setting takes place in Ship-Trap island located in Caribbean Sea.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Type of Conflict: Man Vs Man

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Describe the main conflict: Rainsford is in an island with an enthusiastic human-hunter and wants wants to get out. He cannot get out unless he plays the game with Zaroff and wins.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Describe the Climax of the Story: When Rainsford falls off the cliff into the open sea.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How does the Protagonist change over the course of the story? Rainsford never cared about the way animals felt when he hunted them.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Describe the relationship between the title and the theme.The theme is “empathy” and the title is “The most dangerous game”. The dangerous game allowed Rainsford to finally feel empathy for the animals he hunted.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How does the main conflict help to illustrate the theme? The conflict, Man vs Man- the fact that Zaroff was hunting down Rainsford, this gave Rainsford the time to consider the empathy for all the animals he hunted.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How does the climax help to illustrate the theme? When Rainsford falls off the cliff, he realizes that all the animals he hunted had to take the risk or die.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Give examples of each of the following literary terms in the story (use quotes):

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Simile: The sea was as flat as a plate- glass window.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Metaphor: I have played the fox, now I must play the cat of the fable.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Personification: Night found him leg- weary

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Symbol: The game- it symbolizes the positions of the hunter and the victim.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Foreshadowing (give both elements): When Zaroff tells Rainsford that a suitable animal should have courage, cunning, and be able to reason, we can tell that this animal will be like nothing we have known. No animal is able to reason.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Irony: The light that is suppose to guide ships the Harbour leads the ships to giant razor-edged rocks.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">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 table where twoscore men could sit down to eat. About the hall were the mounted heads of many animals- lions, tigers, elephants, moose, bears; larger or more perfect specimens Rainsford had never seen.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Describe the relationships between the class theme and the story. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The class theme is Humanity. We as humans have tendency to do things to others where we don’t feel what they feel. For example, if someone to bully others, that person would never know how he would feel until they themselves are bullied. In the story, Rainsford didn’t know what the animals felt because he was never hunted. After the game with Zaroff, he realized the feelings that the animals had when they were hunted.

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