The Most Dangerous

Game
By Richard Connell

Figurative Language
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 Similes and metaphors
 " It's so dark," he thought, "that I could
sleep without closing my eyes; the night
would be my eyelids--"
 A Metaphor
 Night (darkness) is his eyelids
 It was so dark, he didn’t need to close his
eyes to sleep
 But his thick eyebrows and pointed
military mustache
 were as black as the night from which
Rainsford had come.
 Simile

 Zaroff’s eyebrows were as black as the

night
 It enhances Zaroff’s dark, sinister image

 A predator who kills at night!!!!

 He tried to wrench it (his leg) back, but
the muck sucked viciously at his foot as
if it were a giant leech.
 Simile
 The hold of the mud on his feet was as
strong as the sucking of a giant leech.
 Enhances the suspense and the image of
being in a swamp
Those fishy blue eyes held a look
I never saw there before.
All I could get out of him was
“This place has an evil name among
seafaring men, Sir.”
Metaphor
The Captain’s blue eyes were like a
fish’s eyes
Not a complement
It (the chateau) was set on a
high bluff, where the sea
licked greedy lips in the
shadows.
Personification/metaphor
The sea is a giant sea monster
waiting
to swallow its prey