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The Most Dangerous Game Language Analysis

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“The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell gives a distressed mood throughout the short story, by using figurative language and making Rainsford seem very nervous and unsteady, while trying to get to safety after falling off of his yacht. When Rainsford falls off of the boat he realizes happens to him, “the wash from the speeding yacht slapped him” (9) making him cry for help with no one hearing him or helping him. This making the reader feel anxious and on edge waiting to find out what happens to Rainsford .Rainsford is thinking to stop swimming he hears a gunshot, that gunshot giving him hope that he isnt completely lost after 10 min of vigorous swimming he heard “The muttering and growling of the sea breaking of a rocky shore” (9). The
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