Persuasive Techniques
This technique repeats a word or phrase to make an idea stand out.
What is repetition?
This character travels back in time on a dinosaur hunt and accidentally changes the future.
Who is Eckels?
This is the name of the main character who arrives in the Glade with no memories.
Who is Thomas?
This is the role Jonas receives at the Ceremony of Twelve.
What is the Receiver of Memory?
The third planet from the sun
What is Earth?
This technique uses strong emotional words to influence the audience’s feelings.
What is emotive language?
Eckels is warned not to do this because it could change history.
What is stepping off the path?
This is the place where the boys live and try to survive.
What is the Glade?
Jonas lives in a community that values this idea where everyone is the same.
What is Sameness?
This famous ship sank in 1912 after hitting an iceberg.
What is the Titanic?
A question asked to make the audience think rather than answer is called this.
What is a rhetorical question?
The story shows the idea that small actions can create huge changes. This is called this.
What is the butterfly effect?
The Maze changes each night, showing that the Gladers are being this.
What is controlled/tested?
Jonas begins to question his community after discovering this truth
What is the release?
The Romans built this famous structure for gladiator battles.
What is the Colosseum?
This technique uses words like “everyone,” “always,” or “never” to make an idea seem true.
What is a generalisation?
The story is set in this year, showing a future where time travel exists
What is 2055?
The Gladers enter the Maze looking for this.
What is an escape route?
This community removes this emotion from people to create sameness.
What is love?
The capital city of Australia is this.
What is Canberra?
This technique creates a sense of urgency to make the audience act.
The author of A Sound of Thunder is this famous science-fiction writer.
Who is Ray Bradbury?
This character helps Thomas and works in the medical area of the Glade.
Who is Newt?
The Giver gives Jonas memories of this event to show the true pain.
What is war?
What is the largest mammal in the world?
What is the blue whale?