The Most Dangerous Game
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Plot Analysis
List 5 important details you learn in the EXPOSITION of the
story:
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6. What is the INCITING INCIDENT of the story (where the main conflict is introduced)?
Conflict Analysis
7. What EXTERNAL CONFLICT must Rainsford deal with?
(person v. person, person v. nature, person v. society) Give specific examples:
8. What INTERNAL CONFLICT must Rainsford deal with (person v. self)?
Foreshadowing
Consider each of the following passages from the story. Then, explain what each passage
FORESHADOWS.
Passage
9. “Off there to the right—somewhere—is a
large Island…it’s rather a mystery—The old
charts call it Ship-Trap Island…”
10. “Again he heard the sound, and again.
Somewhere, off in the blackness, someone
had fired a gun three times…”
11. “Every day I hunt, and I never grow
bored, for I have a quarry with which I can
match my wits….It must have courage,
cunning, and, above all, it must be able to
reason.”
What does this FORESHADOW?
Climax and Resolution
12. The climax of a story is the turning point—usually the highest point of tension—which
directs the readers toward the resolution of the conflict. What is the CLIMAX of “The Most
Dangerous Game”?
13. What is the RESOLUTION of the conflict between Zaroff and Rainsford? Who is the
winner of the “game”? Write down the sentence of the story that tells you who the winner is.
Mystery & Suspense
14. How did author, Richard Connell, create tension (suspense) in the story when Zaroff finds
Rainsford hiding in the tree on the first day of the hunt, but chooses to NOT pursue him? How
does that make the plot more interesting?
15. How does the mystery of what happens to Rainsford after he jumps off the cliff add to the
element of surprise at the end of the story?