"The Most Dangerous Game" Literary Devices & Figurative Lang

"The revolver pointed as rigidly as if the giant were a statue."

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• allusion

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"Rainsford stood blinking in the river of glaring gold light."

• simile 
• irony
• personification
• metaphor

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"... the sea licked greedy lips..."

• personification
• allusion
• irony
• foreshadowing

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"... the sun that had by now pushed through the morning mists..." 

• simile
• irony
• metaphor
• personification

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"We should make it in a few days. I hope the jaguar guns have come from Purdey's. We should have some good hunting up the Amazon. Great sport, hunting."

• irony
• foreshadowing
• allusion
• metaphor

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"In his library he read, to soothe himself, from the works of Marcus Aurelius." 

• allusion
• foreshadowing
• irony
• simile

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"Who cares how a jaguar feels?"
"Perhaps the jaguar does," observed Whitney.
"Bah! They've no understanding." 
"...T world is made up of two classes-- the hunters and the huntees. Luckily, you and I are hunters." 

• irony
• foreshadowing
• imagery
• personification

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"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-- 

• allusion
• personification
• irony
• foreshadowing 

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

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

• personification
• metaphor
• imagery
• foreshadowing

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

"... 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 building-- a lofty structure with pointed towers plunging upward into the gloom. His eyes made out the shadowy outlines of a palatial chateau." 

• imagery
• personification
• foreshadowing
• metaphor

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4