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H.G. Well's The Time Machine Ch. 1-5
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Literary devices and definitions used in the novel "The Time Machine".
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How is it possible for the average person to go back in time?
Walking backwards
Remembering past events
Making the Earth spin in the wrong direction
A time machine
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A word, which imitates the natural sounds of a thing
oxymoron
personification
onomatopoeia
alliteration
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The base that acts as a foundation for the entire literary piece by sharing the author's belief
pun
mood
oxymoron
theme
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What scientific theory was discovered in the Victorian Era?
Theory of Evolution
Kepler's law of planetary motion
The Big Bang Theory
Archimedes' buoyancy principle
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What makes the Time Traveler unreliable?
He spent time in an insane asylum
He was a great magician in his younger days
He pranked them with a ghost last year
He pranked them with a wild animal last year
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The thought of years I spent studying to get to the future, and now my passion to get out of it
imagery
foreshadowing
irony
hyperbole
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Used in literature to highlight and explain the details about a character in a story.
hyperbole
characterization
imagery
personification
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There was a breath of wind...
metaphor
simile
personification
oxymoron
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Who is Weena?
The TT's Eloi friend
The TT's future pet
TT's Eloi doctor
TT's Morlock enemy
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What is the Fourth Dimension?
Length
Duration
Depth
Breadth
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The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood...”
simile
oxymoron
metaphor
personification
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That is the germ of my great discovery.
onomatopoeia
metaphor
personification
simile
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Why was TT afraid once he got to the future?
He was abducted by a Morlock
He ran out of food
His time machine broke
His time machine was lost
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What does it mean to have a sleight of hand?
To have clumsy butterfingers
Use of hands for technical skills
Use of the hands for trickery
To have tiny hands
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What Victorian Era belief is shown in the story?
The division between social classes
Humans will always be evolving and adapting
The faith in technological progress
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A figure of speech which makes an implicit, implied or hidden comparison between two things.
simile
hyperbole
oxymoron
metaphor
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To use figurative language to represent objects in a way that it appeals to our physical senses
onomatopoeia
characterization
imagery
alliteration
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What kind of food does the TT crave when he comes to the dinner party?
Meat
Vegetables
Potatoes
Butter
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Who is the narrator of the story of the Time Machine?
Hillyer and The Young Man
The Time Traveler and Weena
The Eloi and the Morlocks
The Time Traveler and Hillyer
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Why is the Time Machine a good example of science fiction?
it's a true story
The conflicts
Dividing of social classes
futuristic technology
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Name literary device: I grieved to think how brief the dream of the human intellect had been
personification
metaphor
simile
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Be a warning or indication of a future event
pun
plot
alliteration
foreshadowing
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I felt as if I was in a monstrous spider’s web
personification
onomatopoeia
simile
metaphor
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Did the creatures of the future speak the same language as the TT?
No
Yes
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I saw huge buildings rise up faint and fair, and pass like dreams
metaphor
simile
onomatopoeia
oxymoron
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A word is used in a manner to suggest two or more possible meanings
pun
onomatopoeia
conflict
alliteration
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Comparing two things without using like or as
foreshadowing
oxymoron
hyperbole
metaphor
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Which is not a scientific discovery of the Victorian Era?
The telephone
Germ Theory of Disease
mechanical clocks
Local anaesthetic
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Where do the Eloi people live?
Mars
above ground
underground
New York City
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A stance the author adopts in shaping a perspective towards the subject of the literary work
pun
tone
alliteration
oxymoron
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Pick an adjective to describe the Eloi's diet.
macrobiotic
Vegetarian
carnivorous
omnivorous
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How do the guests feel about TT's story?
They think he is unreliable
They think he is a genius
They think he is annoying
They think he is telling the truth
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a figure of speech, which involves an exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis
alliteration
imagery
onomatopoeia
hyperbole
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The main expanse of that eternal ocean, all bloody under that eternal sunset.
simile
alliteration
metaphor
personification
