The Veldt
This is the name of the futuristic house where the Hadley family lives.
What is the Happylife Home?
These two children become increasingly obsessed with the nursery.
Who are Peter and Wendy?
This word means a grassland, especially one found in southern Africa.
What is veldt?
This word describes something clear, glass-like, or resembling crystal.
What is crystalline?
This rhetorical appeal relies on facts, evidence, and logical reasoning.
What is Logos?
The Hadley children spend most of their time in this technologically advanced room.
What is the nursery?
This character becomes suspicious that the nursery has become dangerous and wants to shut it down.
Who is George Hadley?
This word means something that comes out or spreads from a source.
What are emanations?
This futuristic technology produces smells through the nursery's sound system.
What is odorophonics?
This rhetorical appeal attempts to create an emotional response in an audience.
What is Pathos?
This African grassland repeatedly appears in the children's nursery.
What is the veldt?
The ending reveals that the children's relationship with technology has become so extreme that they do this to their parents.
What is trap them in the nursery to be killed by the lions?
This word describes someone who has been subjected to unfair treatment or harassment.
What is persecuted?
This word describes something extremely conservative or resistant to change.
What is superreactionary?
This rhetorical appeal depends on the speaker's credibility or character.
What is ethos?
What literary device is used to portray George and Lydia's death?
What is Foreshadowing?
At the end of the story, George and Lydia realize that Peter and Wendy have become dangerously dependent on the nursery. What does the children's reaction to their parents' attempt to shut it down reveal about their relationship with technology?
What is that the technology has replaced their parents as the children's primary source of comfort, control, and satisfaction?
This word means something that causes someone to become more sensitive or aware of something.
What is sensitized?
This gemstone is commonly characterized by bands or layers and appears in the story's descriptions.
What is agate?
This rhetorical concept refers to the appropriate or opportune moment for making an argument.
What is kairos?
The nursery ultimately becomes dangerous because it does more than display the children's imagination—it does this.
What is physically manifesting their thoughts and desires?
The Happylife Home removes nearly every inconvenience from the Hadleys' lives. Bradbury uses this convenience to explore this larger concern about technology.
What happens when convenience replaces human responsibility and relationships?
This word describes behavior that happens automatically, almost without conscious thought or control.
What is Automaticity?
The children's dependence on the Happylife Home could be described using this vocabulary word because their behavior toward technology becomes habitual and almost involuntary.
What is automaticity?
This rhetorical term refers to the problem, need, or situation that motivates someone to communicate or make an argument.
What is exigence?