The Veldt Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 2. an area in which the vegetation is dominated by a nearly continuous cover of grasses
- 3. The father's name
- 4. The mother's name
- 6. Peter and Wendy Hadley's favorite room
- 9. a wide, grassy plain found in southernmost Africa
- 10. What type of figurative language is this, "The ceiling above them became a deep sky with a hot yellow sun."
- 13. What type of figurative language is this, "Eyes like peppermint candy"
- 14. Wendy and Peter's favorite imaginary place
- 16. How Wendy and Peter got home after the carnival
- 18. What type of characterization is this, "...the tantrum he threw! And Wendy too. They live for the nursery."
- 19. They are "dimensional, superreactionary, supersensitive color film and mental tape film behind glass screens."
- 20. Who is David McClean
Down
- 1. It clothed and fed and rocked them to sleep and played and sang and was good to them
- 5. What type of characterization is this, "Wendy and Peter are spoiled"?
- 7. Lydia Hadley referred to them as "filthy creatures"
- 8. Where Peter and Wendy Hadley were at when they were late for dinner
- 11. Author of "The Veldt"
- 12. What type of figurative language is this, "...sitting down in a chair that immediately began to rock and comfort her."
- 15. Which animal is being referred to in this sentence, "...they're on their way to the water hole. They've just been eating,"
- 17. A system capable of reproducing selected scents capable of fooling the human nervous system