English Literary Terms
a comparison using like or as
What is a simile?
Whose house do the firemen show up at at the end of part two?
What is Faber's house?
This project was known as the Manhattan Project, led by Robert J. Oppenheimer. What did it create?
What is the Atomic Bomb?
Why did people move to the country and out of the cities after the Korean War?
What is there was more land and more people had cars.
How many months have 28 days?
What is all of them?
Language used to create a mental picture for the readers
What is Imagery?
Who calls in Faber and reports him for having books in this house?
What is first the neighbors?Millie's friends then Millie herself.
1948 Economic Recovery Act named after Secretary of State George Marshall, proposed that the US provide economic assistance to restore economic infrastructure of postwar Europe.
What is the Marshall Plan?
After the Korean War, this generation of people in the 50's was looking for what?
What is peace and prosperity?
What is the name of the main character in the TV show Stranger Things?
What is 11?
A comparison between 2 unlike things stating that one is the other, does not use like or as
What is a Metaphor?
How does Millie react to having her house burned?
Senator accused government officials/military officials and other Americans of being Communist sympathizers. He used faulty and fraudulent evidence and infringed on the Civil Rights of Americans.
Who was Senator Joe McCarthy - McCarthyism
The generation born in the 50's was and is still known as this. The largest population of babies ever born in the history of the US
What are Baby Boomers?
How many states are in the United States of America?
What is 50?
Object of idea that represents something else
ex: Uncle Sam = United States
What is Symbolism?
What happens to Beatty?
What is Montag sets him on Fire?
This war divided a country into two at the 38th parallel. The North and the South. One was communist and the other was not. When the war ended the line of war never changed and the country remained divided.
What is the Korean War?
This was probably the most important Supreme Court decision ever made. It ended racial segregation in public schools. What was the name of the court case?
What is Brown vs. The Board of Education?
What is the favorite food of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?
What is Pizza?
The author hints at events that will occur
What is foreshadowing?
What is the Mechanical hound?
in 1962 USA spy planes detect the construction of missile silos in Cuba. The silos were being built by the USSR. President Kennedy ordered an embargo of Cuba and created a Naval blockade.
What is the Cuba Missile Crisis?
Ray Kroc created a popular fast food franchise in the 1950's which is still around today? What's it called?
What is McDonald's?
Who is Bruce Wayne?
Who is Batman (Secret Identity)?