Most Dangerous Game - Literary Devices

Question 1

The world is made up of 2 classes, the hunters and the huntees. Luckily, you and I are hunters.

Accepted Answer

irony

Question 2

"The Cossack was the cat; he was the mouse."

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metaphor

Question 3

The lights became ever vanishing fireflies.

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metaphor

Question 4

The sea was as flat as a plate glass window.

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simile

Question 5

An apprehensive night crawled slowly by like a wounded snake.

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personification/simile

Question 6

...following the trail with the sureness of a bloodhound.

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metaphor

Question 7

twenty feet below him the sea rumbled and hissed

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personification

Question 8

The hounds raised their voices as they hit the fresh scent.

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personification

Question 9

We do our best to preserve the amenities of civilization here.

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Irony

Question 10

The lights sent a flickering illumination that made grotesque patterns on the courtyard below

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Imagery

Question 11

The old charts call it `Ship-Trap Island...Sailors have a curious dread of the place.

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foreshadowing

Question 12

the jungle weeds were crushed down and the moss was lacerated; one patch was stained crimson

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Imagery

Questions 12