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"The Flying Machine" by Ray Bradbury
"The Flying Machine" by Ray Bradbury
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8th Grade Language Arts
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1
What is a Metaphor?
A sentence that compares two items and uses like or as
A Person, Place or Thing
A sentence that compares two items but does not use like or as
The Setting of a story
2
The man in the sky was compared to what TWO animals?
a bird and a dragon
a lion and a tiger
a butterfly and a bird
a butterfly and a dragon
3
The emperor's throne was located in Japan
true
false
4
What is onomatopoeia?
repeating the same word or phrase over and over
a comparison using like or as
words that imitate the sound they describe
two opposite words that describe each other
5
What is the resolution?
The end of the story when the conflict is solved
It happens after the climax but before the end of the story
A guess based on the content of the story
The sequence of events in a story
6
What did the executioner come running with?
a rope
a baseball bat
a sharp silver ax
an iron
7
What is tone in literature?
How people talk to you.
The writer's attitude toward a subject.
The sound of your voice when you sing.
The sound of music.
8
What is something NOT in the Emperor's wind-up machine?
cats
birds
people
wolves
9
The emperor thinks the servant must have had a dream.
true
false
10
What was the first thing the servant and the emperor did?
ran out to see the flying man
sat down and drank some tea
did some gardening
put on the Emperor's ceremonial robe
11
What is the name of the emperor?
Emperor Han
Emperor Yuan
Emperor Emperor
Emperor Alexander
12
The flying man was executed.
false
true
13
Who said they were the only one who saw the flying man?
the Emperor
the servant
the farmer
no one
14
How does the story end?
a dragon came to the land
the Emperor went to drink more tea
another man made a flying suit
the Emperor admired his miniature garden
15
Find the example of onomatopoeia, "The flier began to weep, so that the beautiful paper apparatus rustled."
paper
apparatus
beautiful
rustled
16
What is an antagonist?
the opposite of the protagonist
the scuba divers boat from nemo
the good guy
A person or situation that is against the protagonist
17
What is Direct Characterization?
How the writer shows the character's personality
George Bush
Tells audience what the personality of a character is
When you know a person personally
18
Who does the Emperor fear most?
his servants
the flier
a man who will build things of bright papers and bamboo like the flier's
his neighbors in the East
19
The people of the land were either very happy or very sad
true
false
20
What did the man in the sky yell?
help me!
I fly, I fly!
I am God!
look at me!
21
Who sipped tea?
The Emperor and his hand-servant
The emperor's servant
The emperor
22
What is foreshadowing?
The order of events in a piece of writing
A reference to a well-known person
a short description of what is happening in a story.
Hints an author gives about what is to come
23
What year does the story take place?
A.D. 400
A.D. 800
yesterday
2025
24
What is third person omniscient point of view?
When the narrators knows everyone's thoughts and feelings
When the narrator knows the feelings of one character.
When the narrator is a character in the story.
When the narrator knows nothing at all.
25
Who asked, "What have you done?"
the executioner
the flying man
the servant
the Emperor
26
The emperor thought the air, the sun and his tea are miracles.
true
false
27
What is point of view?
second person
Third person
the position from which something or someone is observed.
First person
28
What is mood?
The feeling the reader gets from the story.
The author's attitude towards the subject or characters.
Suspense built by providing hints of what is to come.
The perspective of the narrator.
29
The flying man asked to be spared.
true
false
30
The servant compared the flying man to a ________________.
wingless bird
a hang glider
dragon with a man in his mouth
plane
31
The flying man's wife knew about the flying suit.
false
true
32
The Emperor ordered the guards to call the executioner.
false
true
33
what is characterization?
the way in which a writer reveals the personality of a character
the main message or moral the author reveals in a story.
the character in the story
the characters opponents actions
34
The Emperor said, "I do not fear you, yourself, but I fear ___________________ ______________.
another man
a pink bunny
an attack
my wife
35
Excellency, a man is _________________________!
running
flying
walking
sleeping
36
What is Theme?
A point in a poem at which the poet shifts from one meaning to another
The underlying message of a story
The main idea of a story
An object that represents abstract ideas
37
What does the emperor think is "the finest of all miracles"?
his tea
the flying man
the sea is blue
the sun has risen and a new day is upon us
38
The man in the sky was crying over the beauty he was seeing.
false
true
39
Who looked at the Great Wall of China?
the flier and the Emperor
the servant
the Emperor
the flying man
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What is indirect characterization?
how someone feels or looks.
traits the author will give hints but never tell you directly
traits the author will tell you directly
41
what is a setting?
what obstacles the character faces
what the characters name is
what the animals or characters names are
where and when the story takes place
