Plot
A Ruined Martian City on Mars is the what in the plot
What is Setting?
Its lid gave a bulging "pop."
What is Onomatopoeia?
At the beginning of the short story, Dark They Were, and Golden Eyed, the dad set the mood by saying, "Let's get back on the rocket."
What is anxious, nervous, scared?
The children want to swim in the canals and hike. The vocabulary word canals means
What is artificial waterways?
The children yellow hair hollered is an example of what figurative language
What is personification?
The protagonist in the story "Dark They Were, Golden Eyed"
What is the Bittering family, especially Harry Bittering?
The children, small seeds, might at any instant be swon to all the Martian is what figurative language
What is Metaphor?
When mom told Harry that one day an atom bomb would hit the earth, and then it happened later in the story was an example of
What is Foreshadowing?
There was only an immense staring burn upon the land. The vocabulary word immense means
What is very large?
... but the fear was never gone. It lay with Mr. Bittering and Mrs. Bittering, a third unbidden partner at every midnight talk...
What is a metaphor?
The antagonist in the short story, "Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed"
What is Mars and the environment and climate?
They saw old cities, lost in their meadows, lying like children's delicate bones among the blowing lake of grass are two examples of what figurative language
What is simile and metaphor?
Throughout the story, the wind was a symbol of
What is the many changes throughout the story?
... and the wind roaring fornlorn and changing through the old peach trees. The vocabulary word fornlorn means...
Also, what is the figurative language in this phrase?
What is abandonded and lonely?
What is personification?
The genre of Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed is
Is the genre in present, past, or future time?
What is Science Fiction?
What is Future time?
The Bittering family realizes that the Martian soil and climate is changing their food.
What is the climax?
Tick-tock, seven o' clock sang the voice clock is an example of what figurative language
What is personification?
As long as the family could leave and go back to earth, the Rocket was a symbol of
What is hope?
Something that seems to belong to the past instead of the present. The vocabulary word is
What is anachronism?
The people on Mars could not leave because...
What is the atom bomb?
An atom bomb hits America, and Harry starts to build a rocket is what in the plot of the short story
What is the rising action?
... a man standing on the edge of the sea,... is an example of what figurative language
What is a metaphor?
The mood at the end of the short story was
What is peaceful, calm, accepting?
Harry forced himself to be convivlal. The vocabulary word convivial means
What is friendly?
There were how many people from Earth on Mars
What is 1,000?