Literary Terms
The protagonist of "A Sound of Thunder".
Who is Eckels?
What is Eckels will definitely step off of the path?
The genre of "A Sound of Thunder" is best described as this.
What is science fiction?
Time travel technology is being used for this purpose.
What is hunting dinosaurs?
The literary element used in this line of text: "The Machine slowed; its scream fell to a murmur. The Machine stopped."
What is personification?
What is Eckels vs. the dinosaur?
Science Fiction is defined by what features?
The author's tone in the story thus far.
What is serious?
The literary element used in this line of text: "Stay on the Path. Don't go off it. I repeat. Don't go off. For any reason! If you fall off, there's a penalty."
What is foreshadowing?
We can infer this is how Mr. Travis feels about Eckels.
What is annoyed?
These are the characteristics about Fantasy that make it different from Science Fiction.
What are: Unrealistic things like magic, dragons, fairies, and other worlds. No basis in science at all.
This is Bradbury's purpose or main point in this story.
What is: Technology is amazing, but humans can misuse it or go too far.
The literary element used in this line of text: "They sat in the ancient wilderness. Far birds' cries blew on a wind, and the smell of tar and an old salt sea, moist grasses, and flowers the color of blood."
What is imagery?
We can infer this about the elected President Keith from the line: "People called us up, you know, joking but not joking. Said if Deutscher became President they wanted to go live in 1492. Of course it's not our business to conduct Escapes, but to form Safaris. Anyway, Keith's President now."
What is President Deutscher would have been a mean dictator as a leader. It seems like a good thing that Keith was elected instead.
These are the items that Bradbury wrote into his science fiction stories that became reality. (Name at least one).
What are: air pods, flat screen tvs, and self-driving cars.
This line of text displays Bradbury's point about what theory? "A Time Machine is finicky business. Not knowing it, we might kill an important animal, a small bird, a roach, a flower even, thus destroying an important link in a growing species."
What is The Butterfly Effect?