1. “Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell Page 16
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Literary Skills – Understand foreshadowing
Reading Skills – Make predictions

2. The Most Dangerous Game Literary Focus: Foreshadowing
Foreshadowing is the use of clues that hint at later events in the story. Foreshadowing
creates suspense
makes you curious, even anxious, to know what happens next—it keeps you turning the pages

3. The Most Dangerous Game Reading Skills: Making Predictions
When you read a suspense-filled story, you make predictions about what is going to happen, often without even realizing it.
A prediction is a type of inference or a guess based on evidence. Predictions may be based on
clues the writer plants
your own experiences in life
your understanding of how stories work

4. The Most Dangerous Game Reading Skills: Making Predictions
The titles of stories and any illustrations can also provide clues about the story.
What do you predict the title of this famous adventure story might mean?
What do the illustrations hint at?

5. The Most Dangerous Game Vocabulary
Previewing the Vocabulary
receding v. used as adj.: becoming more distant.
disarming adj.: removing or lessening suspicions or fears.
prolonged v. used as adj.: extended.
imprudent adj.: unwise.
surmounted v.: overcame.
unruffled adj.: calm; not disturbed.

6. The Most Dangerous Game Vocabulary
Previewing the Vocabulary
invariably adv.: always; without changing.
diverting adj.: entertaining.
impulse n.: sudden desire to do something.
protruding v. used as adj.: sticking out

7. The Most Dangerous Game Vocabulary
Vocabulary Activity
Answer the following questions with yes or no.
Does a man with a receding hairline have much hair?
Would a disarming leader be able to calm an angry crowd?
Would you be displeased if a vacation was prolonged?
Is it imprudent for bicyclists to wear helmets?
Would you admire a person who surmounted a difficulty? no
yes no no
yes

8. The Most Dangerous Game Quickwrite
Make the Connection
Some of the most exciting narratives pit villain against hero in a life-or-death struggle. The tension in such stories often depends as much on the character of the bad guy or gal as on that of the hero. Write a few sentences describing a villain from a novel, story, or movie. Why does the character fascinate you?

9. “Most Dangerous Game”
What clues at the start of the story foreshadow danger for Rainsford?
What details about the description of Zaroff foreshadow the truth about his nature?
Describe the rules of Zaroff’s game.
What collection does Zaroff keep in his library?
List the maneuvers Rainsford uses to try to win the game.
Who wins the game? How do you know?

10. Interactive Student Notebook
In your ISN, draw a large plot pyramid
On the sections of
the pyramid, explain
the part of the story
that fits that section
of the pyramid.