Harrison Bergeron
The Veldt
Marionettes, Inc.
Robot Dreams
Literary Devices
100
The character who terrorizes the film studio.
Who is Harrison?
100
The way the children tell their parents they will be late for dinner.
What is they "televise" their message?
100
This is a literally a marionette.
What is a puppet with strings.
100
This story inspired what movie.
What is I, Robot?
100
A word that compares two things by using "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
200
The father's handicap.
What is headphones?
200
The name of the room the children use.
What is the Nursery?
200
The author of Marionettes Inc,
Who is Ray Bradbury?
200
The author of the story.
Who is Isaac Asimov?
200
Comparing two things without using "Like" or "As".
What is a Metaphor?
300
The mother's handicap?
What is she has no handicaps?
300
A machine in the house that acted on its own. It had "Personification".
What is the stove or the beds.
300
What Smith's wife does with her husband's money.
What is she buys a Marionette?
300
What the robot dreams of.
What is a panorama of robots working.
300
Exaggerating for humor or for emphasis.
What is Hyperbole?
400
The reason the TV announcer has to give a ballerina the microphone.
What is he has a speech handicap?
400
The place on Earth that the children made the nursery create.
What is Africa?
400
The reason Braling gets a Marionette in the first place.
What is his wife is too close?
400
What happened to the robot at the end of the story.
What is he is shot in the head?
400
The enemy in a story.
What is an antagonist?
500
The way Harrison dies.
What is a gunshot wound?
500
The way that the parents die in the end.
What is by lions?
500
The reason Braling was forced to marry his wife.
What is his wife threatened to claim rape?
500
Who the robot sees himself as in his dream.
What is the man.
500
When a human quality or trait is given to an object.
What is personification.
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