Smiling on the Inside
The painting that the people are waiting to destroy in "The Smile"
The Mona Lisa
The disaster at the school that George attempts to help with.
The item Tommy finds in his attic.
A book
I'm so hungry; I could eat a horse.
Hyperbole
The punctuation mark used to indicate dialogue.
"The Smile" is an example of this type of fiction.
Dystopian
The headline of the newspaper article about George.
"The Act of a Hero"
The person who comes to fix Margie's robot teacher.
The County Inspector
He's a snake.
Metaphor
The way to indicate the start of a new paragraph.
Indent
Three examples of things the people have destroyed in "The Smile"
Books, cars, factories
The type of conflict featured most prominently in "Act of a Hero."
Person vs. Self
"The Fun They Had" is an example of this genre.
Science fiction
The three types of irony.
Verbal irony, dramatic irony, situational irony
A sentence that keeps going without the use of punctuation.
Run-on sentence
Person vs. Society
The reason George's children are not at school on the day of the fire.
They had a dentist appointment.
Margie's robot teacher malfunctions in this subject.
Geography
The wind whooshed past my face.
Onomatopoeia
The punctuation mark used to connect two independent clauses.
Semi-colon
The year in which "The Smile" takes place.
2061
George uses this word to describe the feeling of people cheering for him.
Mockery
The year in which "The Fun They Had" takes place.
2157
The two types of third-person point of view.
Limited and omniscient
The grammatical error that involves incorrectly using a comma to connect two independent clauses.
Comma splice