This vocabulary word means "to crouch down in fear."
What is cower?
100
This vocabulary word means "small pellets designed for bird-hunting."
What is birdshot?
100
In the story "Harrison Bergeron," the protagonist is in conflict with this institution.
What is the government or society?
100
The story opens with "The year was 2081...", which is an example of this literary element.
What is setting?
100
This is the type of figurative language used in the sentence "Her voice was a warm, luminous, timeless melody."
What is a metaphor?
200
This vocabulary word means a fictional place where everything is perfect.
What is utopia?
200
This vocabulary word means "in perfect proportion."
What is symmetry?
200
In the story, people with above average strength or intelligence have to wear these.
What are physical and mental handicap devices?
200
This is the type of figurative language used in the sentence "They leaped like deer on the moon."
What is a simile?
200
This is the type of literary device used in the phrase "Harrison Bergeron [...] has just escaped from jail, where he was held on suspicion of overthrowing the government. He [...] should be regarded as extremely dangerous."
What is foreshadowing?
300
This vocabulary word means "a harsh, loud noise."
What is squawk?
300
This vocabulary word is a fictional place, usually set in the future, where everything has gone wrong and often society is run by a dictator.
What is a dystopia?
300
When author Kurt Vonnegut talks about April still driving people crazy by not quite being springtime, he is making the point that this will never be perfect.
What is nature?
300
This is the type of figurative language used in the sentence "She was blindingly beautiful."
What is hyperbole or alliteration?
300
This is the type of figurative language in the phrase "Clanking, clownish, and huge, Harrison stood -- "
What is alliteration?
400
This vocabulary word means "measured against a standard."
What is calibrated?
400
This word is verb meaning "moving at the same speed and in the same way."
What is synchronizing?
400
The fact that we as an audience know what has happened to Harrison but Hazel and George do not is an example of this kind of irony.
What is dramatic irony?
400
This is the type of literary device used in the phrase "a man that would have awed Thor, the god of thunder."
What is an allusion?
400
This is the type of figurative language used in the phrase "the screen jumped again and again, as though dancing to the tune of an earthquake."
What is personification?
500
This word is an adverb meaning "with great seriousness."
What is gravely?
500
This word is an adjective that means "bright and shining."
What is luminous?
500
When the ballerina announces that Harrison has escaped, it signals the beginning of this part of the plot.
What is the rising action?
500
This is the type of literary device used in the phrase "the H-G men required that he wear at all times a red rubber ball for a nose, keep his eyebrows shaved off, and cover his even white teeth with black caps at snaggle-tooth random."
What is imagery?
500
This is the type of irony displayed by the phrase "since the announcer, like all announcers, had a serious speech impediment."