Read the excerpt from "The Most Dangerous Game." "Off there to the right—somewhere—is a large island," said Whitney. "It's rather a mystery—" "What island is it?" Rainsford asked. "The old charts call it ‘Ship-Trap Island,"' Whitney replied. "A suggestive name, isn't it? Sailors have a curious dread of the place. I don't know why. Some superstition—" In writing this excerpt, the author employed
The mysterious name “Ship-Trap Island” and the sailors’ dread of it hint that danger will occur there later in the story. This is foreshadowing, which gives clues about future events. The passage does not mainly rely on sensory description or contrast between expectation and reality.
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