A Sound of Thunder - Imagery

What is science fiction?

• Fiction that is often set in the future and uses scientific facts and theories to create the plot.

• Fiction that is based upon imaginary events like magic and monsters.

• Fiction who purpose is to create feelings of fear, dread, repulsion and terror in the reader.

What is setting?

• the message to be taken from the story

• The events that happen in a story

• The place and time of a story

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is the setting of "A Sound of Thunder"?

• It begins in the past and shifts to the future

• In begins in the future and shifts to the past.

• It is present day.

How does Lesparance choose which dinosaurs to shoot during the time safari?

• He chooses young ones that haven't had an impact on the environment yet.

• He chooses ones that going to die shortly anyway.

• He chooses ones that are weak and easy to kill.

Which one is NOT an outcome of Eckels stepping off the metal path?

• He kills a butterfly.

• He cost the safari company a large fee to pay to the government

• He causes a dictator to win the election.

• He hurts himself in the fall.

What did Eckels do when he saw the T-Rex?

• Ran away screaming

• aimed his gun

• froze and then stumbled the wrong way

• shoot another hunter

What happens to Eckels at the end of the story?

• He has a mental breakdown.

• He leaves and never hunts again.

• Travis shoots him.

• He goes into hiding because he is ashamed that he changed the election.

What is a theme?

• The message of the story

• the feeling you get from a story

• the author's attitude about a topic

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

How can an author convey mood in a story?

• by word choices and imagery

• by stating the feeling

• by what a character says or does

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Which of the 5 senses does this description use:

"you could hear the sighs and murmurs as the furthest chambers of it died"

• sight

• sound

• touch

• smell

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4