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English "The Most Dangerous Game" Flashcards

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Conflict

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Struggle or clash between opposing characters or forces

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Foreshadowing

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The use of clues to hint at events that will occur later

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Symbols

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Person, place, thing, or event that stands for itself and something beyond itself as we’ll

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Receding

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Moving back, becoming less

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Disarming

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Removing or lessening suspicions or fears

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Prolonged

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Extended

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Imprudent

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Unwise

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Surmounted

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Overcame

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Unruffled

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Calm; not disturbed

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Invariably

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Always; without changing

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Diverting

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Entertaining

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Impulse

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Sudden desire to do something

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Protruding

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Sticking out

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Caribbean Sea 
Forest 
Few days
Ship Trap Island 
Chateau
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Setting

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Rainsford 
Zaroff 
Nielson 
Whitney 
Ivan 
Lazarus
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Characters

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Rainsford

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Protagonist

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Zaroff

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Antagonist

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Zaroff is a Cossack; he says Ivan is a savage and he is a Cossack too

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Exposition

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Rainsford is being hunted by a man that wants to kill him : man vs man
Rainsford must keeps his wits and be smart about the game: man vs self
Rainsford has to make traps and find his way around the forest that has dangerous things in it : man vs nature

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Conflicts

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When the game begins

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Rising action

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Rainsford jumps into the water from the cliffs

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Climax

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Rainsford appears back at the house

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Falling Action

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Rainsford kills Zaroff

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Resolution

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What Goes Around Comes Around

It’s All Fun And Games Until Someone Gets Hurt

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Themes

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V and Z represent sharp pointy objects
The color red represents danger, gore, blood, etc.
Pointy objects represent the danger
The color black represents bleakness, the end, etc.

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Symbolism

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He says he’s a savage / Cossack

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Foreshadowing

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The Caribbean Sea
Forest
Chateau 
Island
Rocks 
Lights along channel 
Zaroff 
Ivan
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Imagery

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Savior Faire

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To know

To do

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Richard Connell

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author

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New York

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Where the author was born

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News-Press

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Richard’s father owned one of these

This is how Richard began writing

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Harvard University

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Richard attended Georgetown but went to Harvard after his Father died

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WWI

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Richard enlisted in this war

Was probably the influence for most of his stories

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O’Henry Memorial Prizes

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“The Most Dangerous Game” and “A Friend of Napoleon” both won this award

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February Revolution

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Caused by ...
Cruel treatment of peasant by patricians 
Poor working conditions
Food shortages 
Military failures
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Tsar Nicholas II

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Ruler of Russia during the revolution

Gave the people what they wanted against his will

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Duma

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The government issued to the people by Tsar Nicholas

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Archduke Franz Ferdinand

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Was assassinated in Serbia

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Austro-Hungarian Empire

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Declared war on Serbia

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Serbia

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Looked to Russia for help when the AH-Empire declared war on them
This is when Tsar Nicholas saw that he could rally his people against a common enemy

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Russo-Japanese War

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Russia experienced humiliating losses in this war

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WWI

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Russia experience severe losses in this war and the lost many soldiers so they had to send unexperienced troops to the front with no training

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February Revolution

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the International Woman’s Day festival in St. Petersburg turned into a city-wide demonstration as women went on strike and the soldiers sent to stop them joined them in the streets
Fights broke out and the whole city was in chaos

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Siberia

Ural Mountains

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This is where Tsar Nicholas and his family were sent here as the civil war developed

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Provisional

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This word means a TEMPORARY government

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Provisional Government

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Was made by the leaders of the Duma and became recognized as Russia’s legal government after Tsar Nicholas left

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Petrograd Soviet Organization

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radical trade union of workers and soldiers that wielded enormous influence
favored full-scale Socialism over more moderate democratic reforms generally favored by members of the provisional government

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Lenin (real name : Vladimi Ilyich Ulyanov)

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Socialist and enemy of the Tsarist regime
Saw the opportunity to lead his party to power
Lived in Switzerland
Negotiated a return to Russia with the help of German authorities

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Bolsheviks

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Lenin’s party that he wanted to lead into/continue in Russia

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Good things Lenin did

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Ended the war

Had the slogan “peace, land, and bread”

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Kerensky

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Arguably the most important figure of the time

Member of the Provisional Government

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Finland

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Lenin escaped to here while experienced troops arrived in the city to settle any differences and the Bolsheviks were accused of being in collusion with the Germans

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Kornilov

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Kerensky’s Minister of War who was aiming for military dictatorship

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Romanov’s

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Russian Royal Family

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Bolsheviks

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Killed the Romanov’s in their basement when they were told to go there because of the threat of the Whites in Ekaterinburg

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Judge Sergeyev

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Judge on the case of the murder of the Romanov’s who was removed because he was going to go public about what had happened

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Leon Trotsky

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Elected as president of the Moscow Soviets

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October Revolution

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Lenin took control of every building in St. Petersburg to overthrow the government on October 24th

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Russia

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Kerensky fled the palace by car never to return to this place again

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Reds

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Communists

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Whites

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Nationalists
Conservatives 
Imperialists
Cossacks  
Any anti-Bolshevik/pro-imperial groups
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Lenin and the Reds

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Winners of the Russian Civil War

They established the Soviet Union

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Joseph Stalin

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Took over the communist party and ruled until 1953

Most murderous dictator in Russian history

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Union of Soviet Socialist Republicans

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USSR

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