Meet the Eloi
These tiny, gentle, childlike humans live above ground in the year 802,701 AD.
Who are the Eloi?
These pale, ape-like creatures live underground and only come to the surface at night.
Who are the Morlocks?
According to the Time Traveler, this is the "Fourth Dimension."
What is Time?
The Time Traveler's house and laboratory, where the story begins and ends, are located in this city.
What is London?
The book describes the Eloi as frail. This word means they are physically what?
What is weak (or delicate)?
The Eloi do not eat meat or farm animals; their entire diet consists of this.
What is fruit?
The Morlocks use these structures, which look like deep holes with metal rungs, to travel between the surface and their underground home.
What are the wells?
To prevent anyone else from stealing or accidentally launching his machine while he is away, the Time Traveler always removes these.
What are the control bars?
When the Time Traveler returns to his dinner party a week later than the first time, his appearance is shocking: he is limping, dirty, and his clothes are covered in this.
What is dust (or dirt)?
The Morlocks are described as subterranean creatures, a word that means existing where?
What is underground?
This is the name of the Eloi girl whom the Time Traveler saves from drowning.
Who is Weena?
Because they live in total darkness, the Morlocks' eyes are incredibly sensitive to this item, which the Time Traveler uses to defend himself.
What is fire?
When the Time Traveler first lands in the future, he realizes his machine has been dragged inside the bronze pedestal of this giant, mythical statue.
What is the Sphinx?
Before he tells his incredible story, the Time Traveler demands that his guests make this promise.
What is not to interrupt him?
The Time Traveler uses matches to create a temporary flame. The chemical tip that ignites them is made of this element.
What is phosphorus?
The Eloi are perfectly happy and playful during the day, but they have a massive, terrifying fear of this.
Who are the Morlocks?
The Time Traveler makes a horrifying discovery about what the Morlocks eat, realizing that they treat the Eloi like this type of animal.
What is cattle (or livestock)?
The Time Traveler visits this green, decaying structure to search for weapons and supplies to fight the Morlocks.
What is the Green Palace (or the museum)?
At the very end of the book, the Time Traveler sets off on a second journey and leaves behind this character, who waits three years for him to return.
Who is the Narrator?
When the Time Traveler sees the ruins of giant buildings, he realizes the great cities of the past have decayed, which means they have done what?
What is rotted (or broken down/fallen apart)?
The Time Traveler realizes that, rather than being a highly advanced utopian society, the Eloi have become weak, lazy, and unintelligent because they lack this.
What is struggle (or work/hardship)?
In the original division of society, the Morlocks represent this historical social class, forced to work underground while the wealthy lived in luxury.
What is the working class (or poor/laborers)?
When escaping the Morlocks in the forest, the Time Traveler accidentally causes this disaster, which kills many Morlocks but also costs Weena her life.
What is a forest fire?
To prove to the Narrator that his journey was real, the Time Traveler leaves behind these two wilting items given to him by Weena.
What are white flowers?
The guests at the dinner party are skeptical of the Time Traveler's invention, meaning they feel this way about his claims.
What is doubtful (or not believing)?