Facts
Characters
Techniques and Devices
100
A veldt is a ___________.
What is an open grassland in sub-Saharan Africa?
100
These are the names of the parents in “The Veldt.”
What are George and Lydia 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.
What is a special plastic carnival?
200
The Hadley’s house is ironically named a _________.
What is 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.
What is threw a tantrum?
300
I am a psychologist who Mr. and Mrs. Hadley call upon to help with the children and the nursery situation.
Who is David McClean?
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

The Hadleys find themselves utterly unhappy in the very home they purchased to fulfill their every desire. 

What is irony ?

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 imagery?

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