Literary Terms
When a character stays the same throughout the story.
What is a static character?
Science Fiction evolved/first came about as a response to this other genre.
What is fantasy?
"The Veldt' and many other science fiction stories warn about the possibility of _____________ replacing relationships in our lives.
What is technology?
"This is for your own good. I know best, Charles."
What allowed Duetscher to win the election.
What is Eckels killing a butterfly?
When the author gives hints about what is going to occur later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
A dystopia is when the desire for _______ produces terrible or horrible consequences.
What is perfection?
This is one example of foreshadowing in "The Veldt".
What is the bloody scarf?
What is the bloody/slobbery wallet?
What are the "familiar screams"?
"We don't want to change the future. We don't belong here in the past."
Who is Travis, the safari guide?
This literary device creates a picture in the reader's mind through the five senses.
What is imagery?
When the story is told through one person's perspective named 'I'.
What is the First Person Point of View?
When a writer takes a known scientific fact and wonders 'What if?'
What is extrapolation?
What is communism?
"Go on and rest the bag for a little while, dear. I don't care if you aren't equal to me for a while."
Who is Hazel Bergeron?
The author of "A Sound of Thunder."
Who is Ray Bradbury?
This point of view reveals the thoughts of only one character.
What is 3rd Person Limited?
This is a crucial difference between science fiction and fantasy.
What is magic vs. technology?
What is other world vs. future world?
What is 'unlikey it could happen' vs. 'a possibility it could happen.'
The name of the General Handicapper from "Harrison Bergeron".
Who is Diana Mood Glampers?
"...the room has become a channel towards destructive thoughts, instead of a release away from them."
The reason for why the one astronaut in "Heaven is Mars" did not believe that the 'humans' on Mars were real.
He was an orphan.
Irony that is created when the reader knows something that a character does not.
What is dramatic irony?
These are three common plots in science fiction.
What is:
1. The last man/last woman
2. The first landing story
3. Alien invasion
4. The apocalypse
5. Time travel
6. Space travel
And many more...
Three characters from "The Father Thing".
Who are:
1. Charles
2. The Father Thing
3. Mrs. Walton (mother)
4. Peretti (the bully)
5. Bobby Daniels (the finder)
"Forget sad things!"
One theme/lesson for each of the following short stories:
1. The Father Thing
2. A Sound of Thunder
3. Harrison Bergeron
4. The Veldt
Various answers!