Characters
Who out of our main characters is perfectly average?
Who is Hazel Bergeron (mother).
What were the handicaps used for in the short story "Harrison Bergeron"?
What is to make everyone exactly equal?
Find an example of simile in "Harrison Bergeron". Explain how you know.
Ex:
“The bar snapped like celery." or "'Sounded like somebody hitting a milk bottle with a ball peen hammer' said George." because they use "like" or "as" to compare two unlike things.
Who was selected as Harrison's "Empress"?
Who is the ballerina?
Who put the handicap amendments in place?
Who is the Handicapper General?
Find an example of personification in Harrison Bergeron. Explain how you know.
Ex: "shriek of a door" because doors do not have voices to shriek with.
Who regulates handicaps?
Who are the H-G men?
What changes allowed everyone to be made equal?
What are the 211th, 212th, and 213th amendments to the Constitution?
Find an example of hyperbole in Harrison Bergeron. Explain how you know.
Ex: Hyperbole is an exaggeration "He stamped his foot and the studio shook."
Where was Harrison sent at just 14 years old? Why?
Jail, because of his abilities.
List three handicaps seen in "Harrison Bergeron". Which ability do they neutralize?
What are Headphones for intelligence, masks for beauty, and weights for strength.
Find an example of allusion in Harrison Bergeron.
Ex: An allusion is a well known reference. "The Handicapper General, Diana Moon Glampers and "He flung his rubber-ball nose, revealed a man that would have awed Thor, the god of Thunder"