Language Features
"Today is August 5, 2026, today is August 5, 2026, today is..."
We like this parental, loving member of the family in the beginning of the story
Who is "the house?"
The main characters, our king
Who is "T'Challa?"
The author of There Will Come Soft Rains
Who is Ray Bradbury?
The continent the fictional nation of Wakanda belongs to
In the living room the voice-clock sang, "Tick-tock, seven o'clock, time to get up, time to get up, seven o 'clock!" as if it were afraid that nobody would.
These people have their silhouette on an outdoor wall
Who is "the family?"
The (very handsome) antagonist
Who is "Killmonger?"
Who is the author of the poem, "There will come soft rains"
Who is Sara Teasdale?
The name of the area in California, USA, that Killmonger grew up in
What is Oakland?
Then, like mysterious invaders, they popped into their burrows.
What is a simile?
This character is reluctantly let into the house, runs around madly, then dies on the carpet?
Who is "the dog?"
Princess and technological genius
Who is Princess Shuri?
The decade Ray Bradbury wrote this story
What is the 1950s?
Who is Chadwick Boseman?
The dirty dishes were dropped
what is alliteration?
Eventually, they are revealed as neutral, just programming and code.
Who is "the house?"
The king who kills his own brother
Who is T'Chaka?
The catastrophic event that preludes this story
What is nuclear war?
The name of the plant that the "black panther" eats to visit the ancetral plain
What is the heart shaped herb
The dog frothed at the mouth, lying at the door, sniffing, its eyes turned to fire.
What is a metaphor?
This entity eventually defeats the house
Who is "nature?"
The leader of the gorilla tribe of Wakanda
Who is M'baku?
What day does the house repeat at the end of the story?
What is August 5, 2026?
The black rights activist group that T'Chaka's brother was a part of
What is the Black Panthers?