The Most Dangerous Game: Simile Hunt

The sea was as flat as ______________________________.

He strained his eyes in the direction from which the reports had come, but it was like _____________________________.

The revolver pointed as rigidly as if ____________.

• it were the trunk of a tree

• It were a giant statue

• it were a water hose

• it were a giant knife

...but his thick eyebrows and pointed military mustache were as black as

• the night sky

• the depths of the sea

• a spider's eyes

• the night from which Rainsford had come

...giant rocks with razor edges crouch like a ____________ with wide-open jaws. They can crush a ship as easily as _________.

• alligator's teeth; it crunches its prey

• tiger; a crackin'

• sea monster; I crush this nut

• puma; one could crush a grape

An apprehensive night crawled slowly by like __________

He flattened himself down on the limb, and through a screen of leaves almost as ___________, he watched

• thick as a tapestry

• green as a crocodile

• green as a gecko

• thick as syrup

Rainsford's impulse was to hurl himself down like a _______.

...but the muck sucked viciously at his foot as if ________.

• it were a parasite

• it was a newborn baby

• it was a dry bath

• it were a giant leech

He stepped back from the quicksand a dozen feet or so, and, like ____________________________, he began to dig.

• a dog looking for a bone

• a mole burrowing a tunnel

• some huge prehistoric beaver

• a worm seeking shelter