Plot Diagram
Vocabulary
Literary Focus
Comprehension
Other
100
Maple Street, USA
What is the setting?
100
Steve said it might be a meteor. People agreed and nodded in____________________.
What is assent?
100
At the end of the play, the residents of Maple Street are________________.
What is turning on one another?
100
At the end of the story, ____ __________________ are watching the events unfold.
Who are the 2 figures (or aliens)?
100
Complications is a story make it hard for the _______________ to get what they want.
What are characters?
200
Charlie, Steve, Goodman, Tommy
Who are the main characters?
200
No one was safe from accusations. Everyone had some peculiarity or___________________ that made them look like aliens.
What is idiosyncrasy?
200
At the beginning of the play, the residents are _____________.
What is friendly with each other?
200
Tommy said that "they" don't want them to leave. He is referring to _______________.
What is the aliens?
200
Individual voices are drowned out, and fear and anger take over.
What is a mob scene?
300
Suspicious attitudes and prejudice tear people apart.
What is the theme?
300
Timmy said aliens, not meteors, were the real________.
What is menace?
300
His car starts by itself.
Who is Goodman?
300
The residents do not like anyone who is different, so they turn on___________________.
Who is Les Goodman?
300
Their cries blended together and were no longer________.
What is intelligible?
400
The people
Who were the real monsters?
400
The neighbors became frightened. First, they threatened and ____________ Les Goodman.
What is intimidated?
400
Pete VanHorn
Who is shot and killed?
400
When the power goes out, the residents let ____________ rather than their reason take over.
What is fear?
400
The director of the teleplay gave clear, _________ orders for the camera shots.
What is explicit?
500
Man vs. Man
What is the primary type of conflict?
500
Then the began closing in, or _______________, on Charlie & Steve.
What is converging?
500
Some people in the neighborhood look human but are aliens, and the power outage was caused by a ship landing from outer space.
What does Tommy suggest?
500
The neighbors start to believe Tommy when ___________.
What is Les Goodman's car starts?
500
_____________ accuses Tommy after the shooting.
Who is Charlie?
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