A Sound of Thunder
The use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in literature
What is foreshadowing?
Romaine Heilger pretended to be this character
Ms. Mogson
Name the literary device: "In the living room the voice-clock sang, Tick-tock, seven o'clock, time to get up, seven o'clock! as if it were afraid that nobody would. The morning house lay empty...In the kitchen the breakfast stove gave a hissing sigh..."
What is setting?
The struggle between two opposing forces
What is conflict?
The general feeling or atmosphere that a piece of writing creates within the reader
What is mood?
The main character in "Sound of Thunder" who chickened out while hunting?
Who is Eckles?
What do you call something that happens opposite of what you thought was going to happen?
What is irony? Situational irony to be exact!
The family's set, predictable schedule is an example of what literary device?
What is characterization?
wears the least amount of handicaps in the family
Who is Hazel?
What conflict can best be applied to the following excerpt from "The Pit and the Pendulum": "I prayed--I wearied heaven with my prayer for its [the pendulum's] more speedy descent. I grew frantically mad, and struggled to force myself upward against the sweep of the fearful scimitar. And then I fell suddenly calm, and lay smiling at the glittering death, as a child at some rare bauble."
man vs. self
Even the smallest actions can create great consequences best describes the __________ of "The Sound of Thunder."
What is theme?
Who is Romaine Heigler?
Series of events that build up and create tension and suspense is the
What is the rising action?
In Harrison Bergeron, who sets the handicaps that people must wear? Looking for her title
Who is the handicapper general?
The literary term can best be applied to this passage: "In the center yawned the circular pit from whose jaws I had escaped; but it was the only one in the dungeon."
What is imagery?
Travis shooting Eckles can be identified as this part of the plot model
What is resolution?
Mr. Mayherne can best be described as this type of character. Hint! Think personality!
Round
The main character in "There Will Come Soft Rains"
Who is the house?
The beginning of the story when the setting and characters are introduced
What is exposition?
“The Tyrant Lizard raised itself. The armored flesh glittered like a thousand green coins” is an example of what literary device?
What is imagery?
The reader and Mr. Mayherene discovering that Ms. Mogson and Romaine were the same woman is an example of this type of irony
Situational
"Not one would mind, nor bird or tree, if mankind perished utterly," best sums up the ________ of the story.
What is theme?
"Harrison Bergeron" tackles this controversial topic that is often debated in today's social and political circles
Equality
Poe uses this to describe the downward motion of the pendulum
What is repetition?