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SCAVENGER HUNT –“THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME”

DIRECTIONS:
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With your partner, find the examples of figurative language. Share each sentence that
you find with your partner and discuss before you write it down. DO NOT DIVIDE UP THE WORK.

Page ___ …like moist black velvet…

Page ___ … as flat as a plate-glass window…
Page ___ …door opened as if it were on a spring
Page ___ The revolver pointed as rigidly as if the giant were a statue.
Page ___ …eyebrows and moustache were as black as the night
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SIMILE

…like finding a snuffbox in a limousine

Page ___ …hurl himself down like a panther
Page ___ …night crawled by like a wounded snake
Page ___ … screen of leaves almost as thick as tapestry
Page ___ …the truth was as evident as the sun
Page ___ …like some huge prehistoric beaver he began to dig

Page ___ … As if it were a leech

Page ___ The lights of the yacht became faint and ever-vanishing fireflies.
METAPHOR

Page ___ Rainsford stood blinking in the river of glaring gold light

Page ___ The Cossack was the cat; he was the mouse.
Page ___ the night … pressed its thick warm blackness in upon the yacht
Page ___ the muttering and growling of the sea
Page ___ the sea licked greedy lips
PERSONIFICATION

Page ___ cliffs dived down

Page ___ giant rocks … crouch like a sea monster
Page ___ the night crawled slowly by
Page ___ “…the sun that had by now pushed through the morning mists”
Page ___ the muck sucked viciously at his foot
Page ___ The sea rumbled and hissed
 Page ___ Monte Carlo, Paris, debacle in Russia, Rockies
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ALLUSION

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Page ___ Great White Tsar
Page ___ Madame Butterfly, Marcus Aurelius, Pol Roger, Chambertin
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Who cares how a jaguar feels?"
"Perhaps the jaguar does," observed Whitney.
Page ___ "Bah! They've no understanding."
"… The world is made up of two classes--the hunters and the huntees. Luckily, you and I are
IRONY

hunters.”

Page ___ "Oh, yes…I have electricity. We try to be civilized here."

The deplorable part of it was that Lazarus followed him. You can imagine my feelings, Mr.
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Rainsford. I loved Lazarus; he was the finest hound in my pack.
-"The old charts call it `Ship-Trap Island,"' Whitney replied." A suggestive name, isn't it? Sailors
have a curious dread of the place. I don't know why. Some superstition--"
Page ___ -`This place has an evil name among seafaring men, sir.' Then he said to me, very gravely,
`Don't you feel anything?'--as if the air about us was actually poisonous. Now, you mustn't
FORESHADOWING

laugh when I tell you this--I did feel something like a sudden chill.
An abrupt sound startled him. Off to the right he heard it, and his ears, expert in such matters,
Page ___ could not be mistaken. Again he heard the sound, and again. Somewhere, off in the blackness,
someone had fired a gun three times.
Some wounded thing--by the evidence, a large animal--had thrashed about in the underbrush;
"A twenty-two," he remarked. "That's odd. It must have been a fairly large animal too. The
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hunter had his nerve with him to tackle it with a light gun. It's clear that the brute put up a
fight.”
"No animal had a chance with me anymore. That is no boast; it is a mathematical certainty.
Page ___ The animal had nothing but his legs and his instinct. Instinct is no match for reason.” "I had to
invent a new animal to hunt," he said.
There was a medieval magnificence about it; it suggested a baronial hall of feudal times with
IMAGERY-USES FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE TO

its oaken panels, its high ceiling, its vast refectory tables where twoscore men could sit down
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to eat. About the hall were mounted heads of many animals--lions, tigers, elephants, moose,
bears; larger or more perfect specimens Rainsford had never seen.
APPEAL TO THE SENSES

The cry was pinched off short as the blood-warm waters of the Caribbean Sea closed over his
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head.

the jungle weeds were crushed down and the moss was lacerated; one patch of weeds was
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stained crimson

…his first thought was that he had come upon a village, for there were many lights. But as he
forged along he saw to his great astonishment that all the lights were in one enormous
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building--a lofty structure with pointed towers plunging upward into the gloom. His eyes made
out the shadowy outlines of a palatial chateau.
The lights from the windows sent a flickering illumination that made grotesque patterns on the
Page ___ courtyard below, and Rainsford could see moving about there a dozen or so huge black
shapes; as they turned toward him, their eyes glittered greenly.