Facts
Characters
Techniques and Devices
100

What is an open grassland in sub-Saharan Africa?


A veldt

100

These are the main characters  in “The Veldt.”

 George, Lydia, Peter and Wendy Hadley

100

The statement “The house is wife and mother now, and nursemaid” is an example of this literary device.

What is personification?

200

Mr. and Mrs. Hadley eat alone because the children are at this special event across town. Where were they?

A special plastic carnival

200

The Hadley’s house is ironically named a _________.

Happylife Home

200
“[The house] felt like a mechanical cemetery” is an example of this literary device.
What is a simile?
300

Peter reacted in this way on a previous occasion when his parents shut the nursery.

He threw a tantrum

300

Who did Mr. and Mrs. Hadley call upon to help with the children and the nursery situation?

David McClean, a psychologist 

300
Bradbury uses this literary technique when he writes “How many times in the last year had he opened this door and found Wonderland, Alice, the Mock Turtle, or Aladdin and his Magical Lamp, or Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz, or Dr. Doolittle, or the cow jumping over a very real-appearing moon-all the delightful contraptions of a make-believe world. How often had he seen Pegasus flying in the sky ceiling, or seen fountains of red fireworks, or heard angel voices singing.”
What is allusion?
400

Mrs. Hadley wants this kind of vacation.

What is a vacation from the house?

400
Peter is a boy of this age.
What is ten?
400
As a word, “odorophonics” can be described as a _____________?
What is a neologism?
500

In the final moments of the story before being trapped in the nursery to be devoured by lions, George Hadley asks his wife what prompted them to buy ______________.

What is a nightmare?

500
This character finds George Hadley’s chewed and bloody wallet in the nursery.
Who is George Hadley?
500
The quotation “The hot straw smell of lion grass, the cool green smell of the hidden water hole, the great rusty smell of animals, the smell of dust like a red paprika in the hot air. And now the sounds: the thump of distant antelope feet on grassy sod, the papery rustling of vultures” can be described as an example of this literary device.
What is synaesthesia?
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