Academic Vocab
The environment situation, time, and place of a story.
What is setting?
The theme of the text, Harrison Bergeron.
What is equality? OR Governmental Control
The school Ms. Grant graduated from.
What is UTA?
McCarthy's action that led the author to compose I am Very Real.
What is burn his book?
The headline of an email
What is a subject?
Who the author is writing for, which affects how the story is told.
What is intended audience?
The full name of the Handicap General.
Who is Diana Moon Glampers?
Ms. Grant's family's football team.
What is the Dallas Cowboys?
The author of I am Very Real and Harrison Bergeron. (first and last)
Who is Kurt Vonnegut?
The first part of an email message.
What is a greeting?
The problem/struggle in the story.
What is conflict?
One example of how the author satirized enforced equality in Harrison Bergeron.
What are handicaps?
2081 in USA, wherein 3 amendments enforce complete equality.
What is the setting of Harrison Bergeron?
The name of the high school that the author is writing to.
What is Drake High School?
The length of a subject line.
What is 2-6 words?
The number of parts that plot has.
What is 6?
The part of the plot wherein Harrison breaks out of jail, makes the breaking news, and removes his handicaps.
What is the rising action?
The political rivalry war wherein neither country directly attacked.
What is the Cold War?
The argument in the text, I am Very Real.
What is not banning books?
The part that follows the closing of a message.
What is a signature?
The use of exaggeration, irony, or humor to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices.
What is satire?
Bags of birdshot, heavy weights, earpiece radios, and masks.
What are handicaps?
The economic system of USA vs Soviet Union.
What is Capitalism vs. Communism?
To convince McCarthy that he, the author, is more than a name on a book, he is a real person.
What is author's purpose?
To secretly send a copy of an email.
What is a Blind Carbon Copy (BCC)?