What were the handicaps used for in the short story "Harrison Bergeron"?
What is to make everyone exactly equal?
Find an example of simile in "Harrison Bergeron". Explain how you know.
"'Sounded like somebody hitting a milk bottle with a ball peen hammer' said George."
Who put the handicap amendments in place?
Who is the Handicapper General?
Find an example of personification in Harrison Bergeron. Explain how you know.
"shriek of a door" because doors do not have voices to shriek with.
What changes allowed everyone to be made equal?
What are the 211th, 212th, and 213th amendments to the Constitution?
Find an example of hyperbole in Harrison Bergeron. Explain how you know.
hyperbole = exagerration
Where was Harrison sent at just 14 years old? Why?
Jail, because of his abilities.
List three handicaps seen in "Harrison Bergeron". Which ability do they neutralize?
What are Headphones for intelligence, masks for beauty, and weights for strength.
Find an example of allusion in Harrison Bergeron.