Vocabulary
Payphone or Quill and Parchment.
What is Archaic?
What is a ballet?
This is how many humans are in the poem "There Will Come Soft Rains"
What is none?
Either of these words are vitally important to this excerpt; it's practially in the title!
What is Resilience or Perseverance?
What is culture?
As light as a feather.
What is the future?
This is what the narrator does at the end of "The Road Not Taken," which represents his imagining of the future.
What is sigh?
The images in this excerpt are vital to show the changes in a person's life.
What are storms and quiet mornings?
Where the main character primarily interacts with Bengai culture.
Where is home?
"The dangers of technology" is THIS in Fahrenheit 451.
What is theme?
This is the way that governments control people in just about every dystopian society.
What is fear?
"The Road Not Taken" focuses on the idea of THIS, where you may look back at your life and feel it didn't go exactly as you wished it had.
What is regret?
This is the thing that makes someone truly resilient.
What are repeated actions of courage?
What is neither American nor Bengali?
An author wrote a story to persuade you or inform you.
Diana Moon Glampers has this job in the society of Harrison Bergeron.
What is the Handicapper General?
What is a fork in a yellow wood?
This represents the idea of new opportunities and renewal within the excerpt.
What are mornings/dawn?
This story relates to another story we read way back at the beginning of the year called "My Name," where the main character's name was THIS.
What is Esperanza?
When a character in a movie is making fun of someone while that exact person is standing behind them, and they say, "They're right behind me, aren't they?"
What is dramatic irony?
Harrison Bergeron's rebellion demonstrates THIS amidst a controlling and oppressive government.
What is the power and beauty of individuality?
This primary theme of "There Will Come Soft Rains" is mirrored in the Hunger Games, as nature keeps moving forward and has no deep connection to humanity.
What is "No One Would Mind?"
This is how the themes and images are developed within the excerpt, which help to build on the idea that resilience is constant work.
What are repeated words, actions, and symbols?
This image comes up multiple times and represents the narrator comparing themselves to themselves, depending on which culture they feel they currently identify with.
What is a mirror/reflection?