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PLOT
MOOD, TONE, & OTHER ELEMENTS
VOCABULARY
DRAWING CONCLUSIONS
RANDOM STUFF
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What is the story's setting?

August 4, 2026 Allendale, California, after a nuclear holocaust

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"It quivered at each sound, the house did." AND "Now the fire lay in beds, stood in windows...." are both examples of _________________
personification
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Which vocabulary words means shakily

Tremulous

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At what point in the story does the house seem to "come alive"?

When it is on fire and tries to save its own life

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What caused the fire to start?

a tree branch crashed through a window and knocked kitchen cleaner fluids on the stove
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How much time passes for the duration of our story?

24 hours or one day

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Which of the following words best describes the one of the house's announcements? Pleasant, Sarcastic, Lonely, Threatening
Pleasant
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Which vocabulary word means unaware?

oblivious

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Which word best describes the type of life the family probably led? TIMID, ORDERLY, WARLIKE, CASUAL

ORDERLY

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What part of the house was compared to the evil god of Baal?
the incinerator in the cellar
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How does the author arrange the chronological order of events in this story?

He uses a clock which keeps alerting the reader to the time

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Which of these does the house NOT do? water the lawn, realize what has happened, prepare food, read poems aloud
realize what has happened
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Which vocabulary word means to use or control?

manipulate

300

Describe what the family was doing when disaster struck?

Mother: picking flowers

Father: mowing the lawn

Kids: playing ball

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The Teasdale poem was a favorite of Mrs. McClellan's. What can we infer about Mrs. McClennan?

She would think about how humanity (human life) would end.

OR - She would think about the destruction left by warfare.  

OR ?  There are other possible responses

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What happens after the tree bough crashes through the kitchen window?

A bottle of cleaning solvent spills over the stove and sets the house on fire

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What tone do the following words suggest? "The offending dust, hair,or paper, seized in miniature jaws, was raced back to the burrows." AND what key words lead to your answer?
Anger: key words are "offending", "seized", "jaws", "raced"
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Which vocabulary means to have unreasonable distrust or fear?

paranoia

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What would each member of the family have eaten for breakfast on August 4, 2026?
Each person would have eaten: 2 eggs, 2 pieces of toast, 4 slices of bacon
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Based on this story, which of these ideas would Bradbury agree with: (A)increase our stockpile of nuclear weapons (B)automating houses (C)people doing their own housework (D)nuclear disarmament
D- Nuclear disarmament
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What is the climactic event (climax) in this story?

When the tree branch fell into the window and broke the routine functions of the house

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The incident with the dog takes the reader through a drastic shift in mood. What is that shift? From ______________ to _____________
From Hopeful to Hopeless
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Which vocabulary word means grand, or magnificent?

sublime

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What sentence in the story first gave the hint that a nuclear explosion had occured?
"At night the ruined city gave off a radioactive glow which could be seen for miles."
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What is the author's message in this story?
We will destroy ourselves with our own technology