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What is the dramatic climax?
"But Weena was gone" (Wells 88).
"I searched again for traces of Weena, but there were none" (Wells 89). "the horrible death of little Weena" (Wells 89). |
What is the denouement?
"The Time Traveller vanished three years ago. And, as
everybody knows now, he has never returned" (Wells 106). |
What is a simile?
"‘Where is my Time Machine?’ I began, bawling
like an angry child" (Wells 41). |
What is parallel structure?
"Here was the same beautiful scene, the same abundant foliage, the same splendid palaces and magnificent ruins, the same silver river running between its fertile banks" (Wells 90).
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What is imagery?
"The sun had already gone below the
horizon and the west was flaming gold, touched with some horizontal bars of purple and crimson" (Wells 34). |
What is the exposition?
"But come into the smoking-room" (Wells 17).
"I dressed in dingy nineteenth-century garments" (Wells 29). "people of the year Eight Hundred and Two Thousand odd" (Wells 27). "Upon that machine... I intend to explore time" (Wells 11). |
What is the inciting incident?
“I drew a breath, set my teeth, gripped the starting lever with both hands, and went off with a thud "(Wells 20).
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What is personification?
"I grieved to think how brief the dream of the human
intellect had been. It had committed suicide" (Wells 90). |
What is a dash?
"‘You don’t believe it?’
‘Well——’ ‘I thought not.’" (Wells 102). |
What makes Weena happy?
You automatically win (this round)!
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What is the first falling action?
"So I travelled, stopping ever and again, in great strides of a thousand years or more, drawn on by the mystery of earth's fate" (Wells 97).
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What is the resolution?
"So I came back" (Wells 100).
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What is an allusion?
"The Eloi, like the Carolingian kings, had decayed to a mere beautiful futility" (Wells 67).
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What is a descriptive verb?
"I was oppressed with perplexity and doubt" (Wells 59).
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What is the technical climax?
"But at last the lever was fitted and pulled over. The
clinging hands slipped from me. The darkness presently fell from my eyes. I found myself in the same grey light and tumult I have already described" (Wells 93). |
What is the third rising action?
"the huge skeleton barrel of a Brontosaurus" (Wells 75).
"stuffed animals, desiccated mummies" (Wells 76). "brown dust of departed plants" (Wells 76). "huge bulks of big machines, all greatly corroded" (Wells 77). "decaying vestiges of books" (Wells 78). "in one of the really air-tight cases, I found a box o matches" (Wells 79). |
What is the first rising action?
“The Time Machine was gone!” (Wells 39).
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What is an oxymoron?
"the sightless eyes seemed to watch me" (Wells 23).
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What is sentence structure?
"Hardship and freedom: conditions under which the active, strong, and subtle survive and the weaker go to the wall; conditions that put a premium upon the loyal alliance of capable men, upon self-restraint, patience, and decision. And the institution of the family, and the emotions that arise therein, the fierce jealousy, the tenderness for offspring, parental self-devotion, all found their justification and support in the imminent dangers of the young. NOW, where are these imminent dangers? There is a sentiment arising, and it will grow, against connubial jealousy, against fierce maternity, against passion of all sorts; unnecessary things now, and things that make us uncomfortable, savage survivals, discords in a refined and pleasant life" (Wells 36).
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What makes Weena sad?
You automatically lose (this round)!
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What is the second rising action?
"The too-perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, to a general dwindling in size, strength, and intelligence ... the Eloi" (Wells 57-58).
"Why had the Morlocks taken my Time Machine? For I felt sure it was they who had taken it" (Wells 58). |
What is the second falling action?
I saw nothing moving, in earth or sky or sea ... the pale stars alone were visible. All else was rayless obscurity. The sky was absolutely black" (Wells 98-99).
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What is irony?
"the thought of the years I had spent in study and toil to get into the future age, and now my passion of anxiety to get out of it" (Wells 45).
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What are italics for emphasis?
"You are going to verify THAT?" (Wells 6).
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What is a proper noun?
"I found the Palace of Green Porcelain" (Wells 74).
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