Read the excerpt from "the most dangerous game."
bleak darkness was blacking out the sea and jungle when rainsford sighted the lights. he came upon them as he turned a crook in the coast line, and his first thought was that he had come upon a village, for there were many lights. but as he forged along he saw to his great astonishment that all the lights were in one enormous building—a lofty structure with pointed towers plunging upward into the gloom. his eyes made out the shadowy outlines of a palatial chateau; it was set on a high bluff, and on three sides of it cliffs dived down to where the sea licked greedy lips in the shadows.
in the writing of this excerpt, the writer employed
irony
foreshadowing
imagery
characterization

The answer is C. The writer of The Most Dangerous Game employed imagery.

EXPLANATION

“The Most Dangerous Game” is one of Richard Connell’s works in the form of a short story. This short story is also popular with the name of “The Hounds of Zaroff”. The story was published for the first time on January 19, 1924, in Collier’s. The story is mainly focusing on a hunter from New York City who falls overboard a yacht. After he ends up in the middle of the sea, he then swims to what is thought to be an abandoned island in the Caribbean.  

The island, however, is not abandoned as there lives a Russian aristocrat. Due to the immense popularity of the short story, it has been adapted numerous times into film and radio series, being called the most popular short story in English and earned O. Henry Award upon its publication.

The plot revolves around the main protagonist Sanger Rainsford who was traveling to the Amazon Rainforest with his friend, Whitney in a yacht. While examining the sound of a gunshot, he was thrown overboard and had to swim too so-called Ship-Trap Island, notorious for shipwrecks. There, he finds a chateau so big it resembles a palace and was greeted by two Cossacks, the owner of the place General Zaroff and his servant, Ivan.  

Zaroff is also a big-game hunter and recognizes Rainsford from the latter’s published account of hunting snow leopards in Tibet. Zaroff told Rainsford he is no longer interested in hunting animals because it no longer challenges him, and resorted to hunting people, whom he got from the sailors that were shipwrecked on the island. Zaroff challenged Rainsford to survive the hunt for three days, just like the sailors before him; if he managed to survive the hunt, Zaroff will let him go. Rainsford reluctantly agreed.

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KEYWORD: the most dangerous game, imagery, writer

Subject: English

Class: 10-12

Subchapter: The Most Dangerous Game

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