Literary Devices
"this room is their mother and father, far more important that their real parents."
What is metaphor?
The owner of the wallet found in the nursery
Who is George/the Dad
This character closes the nursery
Who is George Hadley
The genre The Veldt fits into
What is Science Fiction?
The main location displayed in the nursery
What is the African Veldt
"The hot straw smell of lion grass, the cool green smell of the hidden water hole, the great rusty smell of animals, the smell of dust like a red paprika in the hot air."
What is imagery?
The owner of the scarf found in the nursery
Who is Lydia Hadley
This character wants the nursery to be closed first, but then changes their mind
Who is Lydia Hadley
The reason the mother is upset at the beginning
What is she feels that the house does all her work for her
The author of "The Veldt"
Who is Ray Bradbury
"He bent and picked up a bloody scarf. 'This yours?'
'No.' George Hadley's face was rigid. 'It belongs to Lydia.'"
What is foreshadowing?
The kinds of animals are found in the nursery
What are Lions, Vultures, Zebras, Giraffes
This character changes the nursery from Africa to a Forest
Who is Wendy Hadley
What the parents keep hearing throughout the story
What is screaming
Another story we read by the same author
What is "There Will Come Soft Rains"
"...this house which clothed and fed and rocked them to sleep and played and sang and was good to them."
What is personification?
The place the children weren't allowed to go by rocket
What is New York
David McClean's profession
What is a psychologist
The two people screaming in the nursery
Who are the parents
The person who said "'That sounds dreadful! Would I have to tie my own shoes instead of letting the shoe tier do it? And brush my own teeth and comb my hair and give myself a bath?'"
Who is Peter/the boy
"Where before they had a Santa Claus now they have a Scrooge."
What is allusion?
Who the dad tried to make appear to change the nursery
Who is Aladdin
This character threatens another character
Peter Hadley
The type of society attempted to be shown with the technologically advanced house
What is utopia?
The official brand name of the house
What is the HappyLife Home?