Suspense
This genre of writing focuses on the anxiety that results from an uncertain, undecided or mysterious situation.
What is suspense?
This genre of writing focuses on the futuristic possibilities that are grounded in scientific fact, law or theory
What is science fiction?
This story by Ray Bradbury focuses on time travel, where one small change of stepping on a butterfly in the past alters the entire course of the future
What is "A Sound of Thunder?"
This faction values bravery above all else, and is the chosen faction for Beatrice
What is the Dauntless
By using facts, foreshadowing, setting, atmosphere and playing with the emotions and senses of the readers, authors are doing this
what is building suspense?
While science fiction and fantasy sometimes seem similar, this main difference is what separates the two
What is Sci Fi is based on science and can be possible, where fantasy is supernatural and impossible to happen.
In Ray Bradbury's "The Veldt," the children being left to their own devices ends with this fate for the parents
what is "killed by the children's imagination of lions"
Tris' mother belongs to this faction, known for its focus on selflessness and helping others.
What is Abnegation?
In this story, an Irish sniper is locked in a battle with another snipe during the Irish Civil War, and the events resulted in him killing his own brother
what is "The Sniper?"
This novel by Mary Shelley is considered to be the first modern Science Fiction novel
what is "Frankenstein?"
In "The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury, the Hadley family's tragic tale attempts to shed light on this
What is "over-reliance on technology" or "Children need regulation"
During the aptitude test, Tris receives this unexpected classification that puts her at odds with faction expectations.
What is Divergent?
What is "The Necklace?"
Science fiction explores many different topics and conventions rooted in science, like (Name 4)
Time/Space Travel, Advanced Technology, Parallel Universe, Aliens;Mutants, Interplanetary War, Alternate worlds/history, Artificial Intelligence, Robots, Genetics;Disease;Viruses, Utopia and Dystopia, Apocolypse
In Flower's for Algernon, Charlie's sad tale starts and ends in this manner
This character trains Tris and becomes her close ally and eventual romantic interest; his fear landscape is also shared in the story
Who is Tobias Eaton/Four
In this story, Rainsford is stranded on an island after falling off his boat to a hunting ground, where he ends up becoming the "game" himself
What is "The Most Dangerous Game?"
What is "to get readers to think of possible consequences of human choices?"
In Flowers for Algernon, the key theme of "Ignorance is Bliss" is shown through this interaction between Charlie and his "friends"
Charlie new intelligence shows him that his friends have been mistreating him, and that brings about anger and sadness.
This is the pivotal reason the Erudite leader Jeanine Matthews fears Divergents and orchestrates the simulation attacks.
What is that Divergents cannot be controlled by simple simulations because their multi-faction traits let them resist or manipulate the simulations?