"THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME"
Assignment Handouts
- Context Clues
- Vocabulary
- Imagery
- Setting activity
- Conflict activity
- Choosing Precise Verbs
- Final Project
Islands are often presented in world literature as mysterious or foreboding places. Examples of stories in which action takes place on islands are Homer's Odyssey, William Golding's Lord of the Flies, Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, and William Shakespeare's The Tempest.
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borsch: Russian beet soup. Also called borscht.
château: Large dwelling resembling a castle.
Caucasus: Mountain range running southeast from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea.
Cossack: Russian or Pole skilled at horsemanship.
Crimea: Ukraine peninsula that was part of Russia until recent times.
Folies-Bergère: Paris music hall famous for presenting operettas, pantomimes, musical comedies, acrobatic acts, and vaudeville.
Ganges: River in northern India.
knouter: One skilled at flogging.
lassar: Corrupt spelling of lascar, a sailor from India or Southeast Asia serving aboard a European ship.
Madame Butterfly: Tragic opera by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924).
Malay: (1) Adjective referring to inhabitants of the Malay Peninsula, which includes Malaysia and part of Thailand; (2) noun designating an inhabitant of the Malay Peninsula.
Marcus Aurelius: Roman emperor from AD 160-180.
Monte Carlo: Tourist resort and gambling Mecca in Monaco on the Mediterranean coast of Southern France.
Tartar: Violent person hard to control.
yacht: Small sailboat.
Terms to Know:
Conflict: the problem or struggle
Internal
- Man vs. Self
- Man vs. Man
- Man vs. Nature
- Man vs. Animal
- Man vs. Machine (technology)
Plot Elements:
- Exposition
- Rising Action
- Climax
- Falling Action
- Resolution
- Setting
- Major Characters (antagonist, protagonist, round, dynamic)
- Minor Characters (flat, static)