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Conflict

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Struggle or clash between opposing characters or forces

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Foreshadowing

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The use of clues to hint at events that will occur later

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Symbols

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Person, place, thing, or event that stands for itself and something beyond itself as we’ll

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Receding

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Moving back, becoming less

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Disarming

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Removing or lessening suspicions or fears

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Prolonged

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Extended

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Imprudent

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Unwise

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Surmounted

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Overcame

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Unruffled

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Calm; not disturbed

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Invariably

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Always; without changing

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Diverting

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Entertaining

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Impulse

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Sudden desire to do something

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Protruding

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Sticking out

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Caribbean Sea 
Forest 
Few days
Ship Trap Island 
Chateau
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Setting

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Rainsford 
Zaroff 
Nielson 
Whitney 
Ivan 
Lazarus
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Characters

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Rainsford

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Protagonist

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Zaroff

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Antagonist

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Zaroff is a Cossack; he says Ivan is a savage and he is a Cossack too

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Exposition

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Rainsford is being hunted by a man that wants to kill him : man vs man
Rainsford must keeps his wits and be smart about the game: man vs self
Rainsford has to make traps and find his way around the forest that has dangerous things in it : man vs nature

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Conflicts

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When the game begins

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Rising action

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Rainsford jumps into the water from the cliffs

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Climax

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Rainsford appears back at the house

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Falling Action

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Rainsford kills Zaroff

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Resolution

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What Goes Around Comes Around

It’s All Fun And Games Until Someone Gets Hurt

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Themes

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V and Z represent sharp pointy objects The color red represents danger, gore, blood, etc. Pointy objects represent the danger The color black represents bleakness, the end, etc.
Symbolism
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He says he's a savage / Cossack
Foreshadowing
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``` The Caribbean Sea Forest Chateau Island Rocks Lights along channel Zaroff Ivan ```
Imagery
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Savior Faire
To know | To do
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Richard Connell
author
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New York
Where the author was born
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News-Press
Richard's father owned one of these | This is how Richard began writing
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Harvard University
Richard attended Georgetown but went to Harvard after his Father died
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WWI
Richard enlisted in this war | Was probably the influence for most of his stories
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O'Henry Memorial Prizes
"The Most Dangerous Game" and "A Friend of Napoleon" both won this award
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February Revolution
``` Caused by ... Cruel treatment of peasant by patricians Poor working conditions Food shortages Military failures ```
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Tsar Nicholas II
Ruler of Russia during the revolution | Gave the people what they wanted against his will
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Duma
The government issued to the people by Tsar Nicholas
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Was assassinated in Serbia
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Austro-Hungarian Empire
Declared war on Serbia
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Serbia
Looked to Russia for help when the AH-Empire declared war on them This is when Tsar Nicholas saw that he could rally his people against a common enemy
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Russo-Japanese War
Russia experienced humiliating losses in this war
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WWI
Russia experience severe losses in this war and the lost many soldiers so they had to send unexperienced troops to the front with no training
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February Revolution
the International Woman's Day festival in St. Petersburg turned into a city-wide demonstration as women went on strike and the soldiers sent to stop them joined them in the streets Fights broke out and the whole city was in chaos
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Siberia | Ural Mountains
This is where Tsar Nicholas and his family were sent here as the civil war developed
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Provisional
This word means a TEMPORARY government
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Provisional Government
Was made by the leaders of the Duma and became recognized as Russia's legal government after Tsar Nicholas left
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Petrograd Soviet Organization
radical trade union of workers and soldiers that wielded enormous influence favored full-scale Socialism over more moderate democratic reforms generally favored by members of the provisional government
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Lenin (real name : Vladimi Ilyich Ulyanov)
Socialist and enemy of the Tsarist regime Saw the opportunity to lead his party to power Lived in Switzerland Negotiated a return to Russia with the help of German authorities
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Bolsheviks
Lenin's party that he wanted to lead into/continue in Russia
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Good things Lenin did
Ended the war | Had the slogan "peace, land, and bread"
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Kerensky
Arguably the most important figure of the time | Member of the Provisional Government
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Finland
Lenin escaped to here while experienced troops arrived in the city to settle any differences and the Bolsheviks were accused of being in collusion with the Germans
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Kornilov
Kerensky's Minister of War who was aiming for military dictatorship
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Romanov's
Russian Royal Family
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Bolsheviks
Killed the Romanov's in their basement when they were told to go there because of the threat of the Whites in Ekaterinburg
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Judge Sergeyev
Judge on the case of the murder of the Romanov's who was removed because he was going to go public about what had happened
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Leon Trotsky
Elected as president of the Moscow Soviets
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October Revolution
Lenin took control of every building in St. Petersburg to overthrow the government on October 24th
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Russia
Kerensky fled the palace by car never to return to this place again
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Reds
Communists
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Whites
``` Nationalists Conservatives Imperialists Cossacks Any anti-Bolshevik/pro-imperial groups ```
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Lenin and the Reds
Winners of the Russian Civil War | They established the Soviet Union
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Joseph Stalin
Took over the communist party and ruled until 1953 | Most murderous dictator in Russian history
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republicans
USSR

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