Monsters Are Due On Maple Street
What is an adjective to describe the mood in the opening scene of the play?
The mood is calm, serene, quiet
What is the falling action / resolution event in the story?
Figure 1 and Figure 2 discuss the procedure for inciting panic
What is a scapegoat?
A person who is unfairly blamed for a problem or situation.
What a phrase or expression used in a different way from the literal or ordinary meaning.
What is an idiom?
What is climax?
The turning point of the story
He goes to check whether the power is out in the nearby neighborhood
Charlie feels guilty for shooting and killing Pete.
Who are the real monsters on Maple Street?
the residents themselves
This vocabulary word means: a quirk, habit, or unique feature that makes a specific person, group, or thing stand out from everyone else.
What is idiosyncrasy?
A hidden symbolic meaning—usually a moral lesson, a big idea about human nature, or a comment on real-world history and politics. ?
What is Allegory.
What is plagiarism
Plagiarism is the use of another's work, words, or ideas without permission
How do the residents of Maple Street first react to the various failures after the mysterious event?
They become confused and try to figure out what’s going on.
What is the theme of “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street?
Even ordinary people are capable of doing terrible things when they find themselves in dangerous circumstances.
Fear, suspicion, and stereotypes are weapons that humans can use against each other.
Prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own.
What mysterious incident sets the story in motion?
There’s a sudden flash of light and sound, and things suddenly stop working properly on Maple Street.
What is hyperbole?
Hyperbole is using exaggeration to describe something
What is the subject of the sentence: "The frightened neighbors ran outside"?
neighbors.
Why does Tommy believe aliens are responsible for the power outage
reading too many comic books
How does Charlie defend himself after shooting Pete Van Horn?
Charlie insists that he did it to protect himself and his community.
What is the setting of Monsters are Due on Maple Street?
Friendly, calm, stereotypical 1950’s neighborhood
What is personification?
Giving human like qualities to non human things
Identify the adjective in this sentence: "The suspicious neighbors gathered outside."
suspicious
What is Mob Mentality?
Mob Mentality is when people ban together to go against someone
Why does Steve become frustrated when the neighbors begin accusing one another?
He recognizes that they are allowing fear and suspicion to control them instead of thinking rationally.
Why do people suspect Les Goodman as the alien?
His car starts by itself and he takes nightly walks because of his insomnia
Name the sequence of Plot Structure
What is Exposition, Rising action, Climax, Falling action, Resolution
What is wrong with this sentence: "The neighbors was afraid of the strange lights"?
Subject-verb agreement. "Neighbors" is plural, so the sentence should say "The neighbors were afraid of the strange lights."