English "The Most Dangerous Game" Flashcards
Conflict
Struggle or clash between opposing characters or forces
Foreshadowing
The use of clues to hint at events that will occur later
Symbols
Person, place, thing, or event that stands for itself and something beyond itself as we’ll
Receding
Moving back, becoming less
Disarming
Removing or lessening suspicions or fears
Prolonged
Extended
Imprudent
Unwise
Surmounted
Overcame
Unruffled
Calm; not disturbed
Invariably
Always; without changing
Diverting
Entertaining
Impulse
Sudden desire to do something
Protruding
Sticking out
Caribbean Sea Forest Few days Ship Trap Island Chateau
Setting
Rainsford Zaroff Nielson Whitney Ivan Lazarus
Characters
Rainsford
Protagonist
Zaroff
Antagonist
Zaroff is a Cossack; he says Ivan is a savage and he is a Cossack too
Exposition
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
Conflicts
When the game begins
Rising action
Rainsford jumps into the water from the cliffs
Climax
Rainsford appears back at the house
Falling Action
Rainsford kills Zaroff
Resolution
What Goes Around Comes Around
It’s All Fun And Games Until Someone Gets Hurt
Themes
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.
Symbolism
He says he’s a savage / Cossack
Foreshadowing
The Caribbean Sea Forest Chateau Island Rocks Lights along channel Zaroff Ivan
Imagery
Savior Faire
To know
To do
Richard Connell
author
New York
Where the author was born
News-Press
Richard’s father owned one of these
This is how Richard began writing
Harvard University
Richard attended Georgetown but went to Harvard after his Father died
WWI
Richard enlisted in this war
Was probably the influence for most of his stories
O’Henry Memorial Prizes
“The Most Dangerous Game” and “A Friend of Napoleon” both won this award
February Revolution
Caused by ... Cruel treatment of peasant by patricians Poor working conditions Food shortages Military failures
Tsar Nicholas II
Ruler of Russia during the revolution
Gave the people what they wanted against his will
Duma
The government issued to the people by Tsar Nicholas
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Was assassinated in Serbia
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Declared war on Serbia
Serbia
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
Russo-Japanese War
Russia experienced humiliating losses in this war
WWI
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
February Revolution
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
Siberia
Ural Mountains
This is where Tsar Nicholas and his family were sent here as the civil war developed
Provisional
This word means a TEMPORARY government
Provisional Government
Was made by the leaders of the Duma and became recognized as Russia’s legal government after Tsar Nicholas left
Petrograd Soviet Organization
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
Lenin (real name : Vladimi Ilyich Ulyanov)
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
Bolsheviks
Lenin’s party that he wanted to lead into/continue in Russia
Good things Lenin did
Ended the war
Had the slogan “peace, land, and bread”
Kerensky
Arguably the most important figure of the time
Member of the Provisional Government
Finland
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
Kornilov
Kerensky’s Minister of War who was aiming for military dictatorship
Romanov’s
Russian Royal Family
Bolsheviks
Killed the Romanov’s in their basement when they were told to go there because of the threat of the Whites in Ekaterinburg
Judge Sergeyev
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
Leon Trotsky
Elected as president of the Moscow Soviets
October Revolution
Lenin took control of every building in St. Petersburg to overthrow the government on October 24th
Russia
Kerensky fled the palace by car never to return to this place again
Reds
Communists
Whites
Nationalists Conservatives Imperialists Cossacks Any anti-Bolshevik/pro-imperial groups
Lenin and the Reds
Winners of the Russian Civil War
They established the Soviet Union
Joseph Stalin
Took over the communist party and ruled until 1953
Most murderous dictator in Russian history
Union of Soviet Socialist Republicans
USSR
