Allusions/ Subgenres
A psychological test widely used in the 1950s to describe personality. In the test, a person is shown a series of inkblot images and asked to describe what he or she perceives in the abstract pictures.
Rorschach Test
The United States and Russia were competing to build stockpiles of nuclear weapons
Nuclear Arms Race
An ideal society; an imagined place where everything is perfect
Utopia
To give animals or non-living objects human characteristics
Personification
This author published his story "There Will Come Soft Rains" in 1950. He is best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451.
Ray Bradbury
Futuristic
A period of tension between Soviet Union and United States
Cold War
An imagined society in which there is great suffering and injustice
Dystopia
A message conveyed by a text that applies to multiple other texts
Theme
This poet first published her poem "There Will Come Soft Rains" in July of 1918 during WW1. She was known for her sentimental love poetry before WW1 and was an avid student of Charles Darwin and his concept of "survival of the fittest".
Sara Teasdale
Fiction set after an apocalypse or devastating event causing decline in humanity or Earth itself
Post-apocalyptic
War between the Allied Powers (including the United States and Soviet Union) and the Axis Powers led by Germany.
World War II
Using art to comment on or critique issues in society
Social Commentary
A literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.
Forshadowing
This American author was a professor of creative writing. His best known work is "Flowers for Algernon"
Daniel Keyes
This famous epistolary novel by Daniel Defoe was first published in 1719. It is presented as the journal of this title character, a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island. It is referenced by Charlie in "Flowers for Algernon".
Robinson Crusoe
In August of 1945, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, at ___________ and ___________, ending World War II.
The application of scientific knowledge to the practical aims of human life; the change and manipulation of the human environment
Technology
A literary technique that refers to the difference between what is expected to happen versus what actually happens
Irony
"Flowers for Algernon" is written from this narrator's first person point of view. His written progress reports compose the entries and content of the epistolary story.
Charlie Gordon
A scene or chapter in which things that happened to a character earlier happen again in a different context.
Parallel Episode
A famous epic poem first published in 1667. The poem describes the biblical story of the Fall of Man: the temptation of Adam and Eve, their choice to eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge, and their removal from Paradise, the Garden of Eden
Paradise Lost
Stories incorporate a believable use of science and technology as it exists at the time the story is written
Mundane
A fictional work written as a series of authentic- seeming documents, like letters, diary entries, newspaper columns, or emails. These stories are typically told in first-person; the narrator of the story is framed as the “writer” of the documents.
Epistolary
Author of Paradise Lost
John Milton