WYC: Suspense

 Conflict: “Of course you, in return, MUST AGREE TO SAY NOTHING OF YOUR STAY HERE.” “I'LL AGREE TO NOTHING OF THE KIND."

Characterization: “I'LL AGREE TO NOTHING OF THE KIND,” said Rainsford."

Foreshadowing Clue: “‘Don’t talk rot, Whitney,’ said Rainsford...Who cares how a jaguar feels?’”

Simile or Metaphor: "...another figure whose wide shoulders surged through the tall jungle weeds; it was the giant Ivan"

Characterization: "SAY NOTHING of your stay here," stated the General..."WELL IN THAT CASE...BUT WHY DISCUSS THAT NOW."

Characterization: “The MENACING look in his eyes did not change"

Simile or Metaphor: "He stepped back...and, like some huge prehistoric beaver, he began to dig."

Allusion: There was a medieval magnificence to it; it suggested a  baronial hall of feudal times

Characterization: "Rainsford was finding the general a most THOUGHTFUL and AFFABLE host."

Allusion: as he put it on, noticed it had come from a London tailor

Simile or Metaphor: "An apprehensive night crawled slowly by like a wounded snake"

Conflict: “I do not feel so well. I am worried, Mr. Rainsford. LAST NIGHT I DETECTED TRACES OF MY OLD COMPLAINT” (29)

Allusion: Sometimes an angry GOD of the HIGH SEAS sends them to me

Characterization: “I LIVE FOR DANGER, Mr. Rainsford."

Conflict: "GET READY, GENERAL ZAROFF." The general made one of his deepest bows.

Foreshadowing Clue: "The old charts call it “Ship-Trap Island’…suggestive name isn’t it."

Suspense ID: The atmosphere or feeling that the READER has while reading a text.

Allusion: I played the FOX, now I must play the CAT of the FABLE

Simile or Metaphor: "The Cossack was the cat; he was the mouse."

Suspense ID: The use of SOUND words in a text

Suspense ID: “No thrill left in the tigers, no real danger. I LIVE FOR DANGER, Mr. Rainsford.”

Suspense ID: "...the dead tree, delicately adjusted to rest on the cut living one, CRASHED down and struck the general"

Suspense ID: Hints or clues that lead up to larger events in the story

Allusion: Zaroff could not trace him there, he told himself; only the DEVIL himself could follow that complicated trail

Suspense ID: Speed in which events take place

Suspense ID: "Something was coming through the bush, coming SLOWLY, CAREFULLY, coming by the same winding way”

Simile or Metaphor: "He flattened himself down on the limb and, through a screen of leaves almost as thick as tapestry."