Dystopian Vocab
A word that means “a system of ideas imposed to shape thought and loyalty”
What is propaganda?
Watching: One common way dystopian governments keep citizens in line.
What is surveillance?
The difference between a post-apocalyptic world and a dystopian world is that the dystopian world has this.
What is government control?
In this story, a girl named Katniss takes her sister’s place in a deadly competition.
What is The Hunger Games?
In dystopian fiction, scarcity refers to this.
What does scarcity refer to in dystopian fiction?
When one or more large companies control society, this term applies.
What is corporate control?
Something that might be banned in a dystopian world.
What is media (books, movies, etc)?
In The Giver, what color does Jonas begin to see first?
What is red?
The systematic teaching of beliefs or ideology to control citizens.
What is indoctrination?
Banishment is a term that refers to...
What is exile?
This is an example of something that might cause a world to become dystopian.
What is war/disease/natural disaster, etc?
In Fahrenheit 451, these are illegal and regularly burned by “firemen”
What are books?
A system where people are treated unfairly or cruelly, often by a government or ruling class.
What is oppression?
In 1984, the name of the government’s watchful eye that monitors citizens constantly
What is Big Brother?
A common reason people don’t fight back in a dystopia
What is brainwashing?
This dystopian movie features a society where people are divided by genetic “perfection,” and a man fakes his identity to chase his dreams.
What is Gattaca?
This term describes the process of controlling or limiting access to information, books, or ideas.
What is censorship?
In this movie, characters are trapped by machines in a simulation
What is The Matrix?
This is a word that could be used to describe a utopia.
What is peaceful, ideal, perfect, etc?
The book in which the characters are part of an experiment run by WICKED to find a cure for a deadly virus
What is The Maze Runner?