2. Find three examples of foreshadowing from the text.
3. Why is man the ideal hunt for General Zaroff?
Group 2
1. What is the central conflict in this story?
2. What are three different themes from this text?
3. What does Rainsford mean when he said, “I am still a beast at bay”?
Group 3
1. Define the word “suspense.”
2. Find three examples of suspense the author uses in the text.
3. At which point is the suspense greatest in the story? Why?
Group 4
1. Define the word “tone.”
2. What is the tone of this story? Use at least three specific examples from the text.
3. Explain why Rainsford is a dynamic character in this story.
Group 5
1. Define the word “irony.”
2. Find three examples of irony from the text
3. If General Zaroff knows where Rainsford is during the first night, why does he not kill him right away? What does this teach us about General Zaroff’s character?
Group 6
1. Define the word “imagery.”
2. Find three examples of imagery in the text.
3. How does Zaroff and Rainsford’s views of human life differ?
Group 1: (Mary Kate, Braedon, Mitchel, Sydney)
Foreshadowing means the hinting of events that will happen later in the text.
Three examples of foreshadowing from the text are: when Rainsford lost his balance and then fell (page 21), when Rainsford gathered supplies of spears and branches to make the trap (page 34), and when Rainsford and Zaroff got into a sword fight (page 36).
The man is the ideal hunt for General Zaroff because man can reason, and actually put up a fight.
Group 2 (Anthony, Jaylyn, Nicholas, Audriana)
1. The central conflict is man versus man. For example the general is hunting him down.
2. One of the themes is to hunt or be hunted. Another theme is never trust anybody. The final theme is that you never really know everything, because you never thought someone would hunt people.
3. When Rainsford says he is still “a beast at bay”, he means he is still ready to attack at any moment.
Group 3 (Cameron, Richie, Abbie) Suspense: The tension of the story. 3 examples of suspense: The general spots Rainsford in the tree. We don’t know who won the fight in the end. Rainsford doesn’t know if anyone is one the island when he first arrives. At which point in the story is the suspense the greatest? The suspense is the greatest when Rainsford is against the cliff and the dogs are coming.
Group 4 (Kirsten Menke, Justin Brown, Will Ewers)
1. The writers attitude towards the subject.
2. The writer wasn’t fond of killing people, the author was angry.
- When the main character finds out that the general is killing/hunting people.
- At the end when he kills the general.
- In the beginning when Whitney said she felt bad for the jaguars.
3. The story revolves around him and it only shows his emotions.
Group 5 (Carsten Opris, Seamus Libert, Jimmy Holmes)
Irony- General term for literary techniques that portray differences between appearances and reality, or expectation and result.
Examples- “A new Animal” It was not really a real animal it was a human.
“ I give them that choice” It’s not really that much of a choice between near certainty of death or torture to death.
Group 6 (Elizabeth Kinskey, Drew Cassidy, Liam Hurst)
Imagery is visually descriptive and figurative language that paints a picture in the readers mind. – It’s like moist black velvet. A gigantic creature solidly made and black- bearded to the waist. The general took from his pocket a gold cigarette case and offered his guest a long black cigarette with a silver tip; it was perfumed and gave off a smell like incense. 3. Zaroff believes in more of the fact that humans are a sport and don’t have real lives, etc. where as Rainsford believes that humans are important and shouldn’t be hunted because they do have lives, and souls, etc.
“ One of us is to repast for the hounds” It means that the hounds will get food and this time it wont be the hunted.
He is just wanting another hunting day and to mess with his mind. It tells us how cruel he is.
Group 1
1. Define the word “foreshadowing.”
2. Find three examples of foreshadowing from the text.
3. Why is man the ideal hunt for General Zaroff?
Group 2
1. What is the central conflict in this story?
2. What are three different themes from this text?
3. What does Rainsford mean when he said, “I am still a beast at bay”?
Group 3
1. Define the word “suspense.”
2. Find three examples of suspense the author uses in the text.
3. At which point is the suspense greatest in the story? Why?
Group 4
1. Define the word “tone.”
2. What is the tone of this story? Use at least three specific examples from the text.
3. Explain why Rainsford is a dynamic character in this story.
Group 5
1. Define the word “irony.”
2. Find three examples of irony from the text
3. If General Zaroff knows where Rainsford is during the first night, why does he not kill him right away? What does this teach us about General Zaroff’s character?
Group 6
1. Define the word “imagery.”
2. Find three examples of imagery in the text.
3. How does Zaroff and Rainsford’s views of human life differ?
Group 1: (Mary Kate, Braedon, Mitchel, Sydney)
Foreshadowing means the hinting of events that will happen later in the text.
Three examples of foreshadowing from the text are: when Rainsford lost his balance and then fell (page 21), when Rainsford gathered supplies of spears and branches to make the trap (page 34), and when Rainsford and Zaroff got into a sword fight (page 36).
The man is the ideal hunt for General Zaroff because man can reason, and actually put up a fight.
Group 2 (Anthony, Jaylyn, Nicholas, Audriana)
1. The central conflict is man versus man. For example the general is hunting him down.
2. One of the themes is to hunt or be hunted. Another theme is never trust anybody. The final theme is that you never really know everything, because you never thought someone would hunt people.
3. When Rainsford says he is still “a beast at bay”, he means he is still ready to attack at any moment.
Group 3 (Cameron, Richie, Abbie)
Suspense: The tension of the story.
3 examples of suspense: The general spots Rainsford in the tree.
We don’t know who won the fight in the end.
Rainsford doesn’t know if anyone is one the island when he first arrives.
At which point in the story is the suspense the greatest?
The suspense is the greatest when Rainsford is against the cliff and the dogs are coming.
Group 4 (Kirsten Menke, Justin Brown, Will Ewers)
- 1. The writers attitude towards the subject.
- 2. The writer wasn’t fond of killing people, the author was angry.
- When the main character finds out that the general is killing/hunting people.- At the end when he kills the general.
- In the beginning when Whitney said she felt bad for the jaguars.
3. The story revolves around him and it only shows his emotions.
Group 5 (Carsten Opris, Seamus Libert, Jimmy Holmes)
Irony- General term for literary techniques that portray differences between appearances and reality, or expectation and result.
Examples- “A new Animal” It was not really a real animal it was a human.
“ I give them that choice” It’s not really that much of a choice between near certainty of death or torture to death.
Group 6 (Elizabeth Kinskey, Drew Cassidy, Liam Hurst)
Imagery is visually descriptive and figurative language that paints a picture in the readers mind.
– It’s like moist black velvet.
A gigantic creature solidly made and black- bearded to the waist.
The general took from his pocket a gold cigarette case and offered his guest a long black cigarette with a silver tip; it was perfumed and gave off a smell like incense.
3. Zaroff believes in more of the fact that humans are a sport and don’t have real lives, etc. where as Rainsford believes that humans are important and shouldn’t be hunted because they do have lives, and souls, etc.
“ One of us is to repast for the hounds” It means that the hounds will get food and this time it wont be the hunted.
He is just wanting another hunting day and to mess with his mind. It tells us how cruel he is.