Figurative Language in "The Most Dangerous Game"

. . . like moist black velvet . . .

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• imagery

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CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

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

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• imagery

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CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

the night. . . pressed its thick warm blackness upon the yacht

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• imagery

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CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

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

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• allusion

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CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

Madame Butterfly, Marcus Aurelius, Pol Roger, Chambertin

• Irony

• Metaphors

• Foreshadowing

• Allusions

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CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

"Oh yes. . . I have electricity. We try to be civilized here."

• Irony

• Allusion

• Foreshadowing

• Personification

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CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

giant rocks. . . crouch like a sea monster

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• allusion

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CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

"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

• imagery

• metaphor

• foreshadowing

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CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.4

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

• metaphor

• imagery

• simile

• foreshadowing

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CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

The Cossack was the cat; he was the mouse.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• imagery

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CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4