Vocabulary
Characters
Literary Devices
Plot
Miscellaneous
100
A word that means to accuse someone.
What is incriminate?
100
This person killed Pete Van Horn.
Who is Charlie?
100
These two things need to be included in the setting.
What is time and place?
100
This first startles the people on Maple Street.
What is a flash of light and roar in the sky?
100
Describe the setting.
What is a 1960 suburban neighborhood at the end of summer?
200
A word meaning hostility or friendliness.
What is antagonism?
200
This character's car started and stopped all by itself.
Who is Les Goodman?
200
This term describes the lesson or moral of the story.
What is the theme?
200
Everyone comes out of their houses in Act One due to this.
What is everything stops working and they want to see if other neighbors are having the same problem?
200
The theme of Monsters are due on Maple street is...
What is fear turns people into their own worst enemy?
300
A football player who gets hurt, might have a face that looks ______________ with pain.
What is contorted?
300
The name of the boy in this story is ____________.
Who is Tommy?
300
The climax of the play occurs here.
What is when Charlie shoots Pete Van Horn?
300
Les Goodman's neighbors accuse him of this.
What is standing outside in the middle of the night and staring up at the sky?
300
A crowd turns into a mob when...
What is they become dangerous?
400
Someone that always looks at the brigher side of things is considered to be _________________.
What is optimistic?
400
The number of aliens in this story was ________.
What is two?
400
When an author hints at upcoming events it's called ________________.
What is foreshadowing?
400
The aliens rely on this in order for their plan to be successful.
What is human fear?
400
The power outages are caused by the __________.
What is aliens?
500
Someone that is blamed for something is called a _______________.
What is a scapegoat?
500
Tommy gets all of ideas about aliens from this.
What are stories he has read in comic books?
500
Rod Serling's teleplay is considered to be written in this genre.
What is Sci-Fi or Fantasy?
500
The real monsters in the play are _____________.
What is the people themselves?
500
The neighbors use _______________ as reasons to incriminate eachother.
What is their idiosyncrasies?
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