ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -“I am still a beast at bay, ” he said in a low, hoarse voice.

Detailed explanation-2: -Personification in ‘’The Most Dangerous Game” Personification is a literary device whereby an author attributes human characteristics or actions to a nonhuman entity. Examples of personification in ‘’The Most Dangerous Game” are below.

Detailed explanation-3: -Literary devices like simile, metaphor, suspense, personification, allusion, irony, foreshadowing, and imagery are used in lots of stories. In the short story ¨The Most Dangerous Game”, Richard Connell uses literary devices such as suspense and simile to help the reader gain a clear understanding of the story.

Detailed explanation-4: -For instance, when Rainsford falls off the boat and surfaces, he watches as the boat recedes into the night: “The lights of the yacht became faint and ever-vanishing fireflies.” And as he swims to shore, Rainsford hears “the muttering and growling of the sea” crashing on land.

Detailed explanation-5: -The repetition of the ‘r’ sound in Rainsford, raced and rugged is another example of Connell using alliteration at an exciting point in the story.