Bradbury uses imagery and foreshadowing to create and maintain suspense in this short story. The story constantly brings us back, through the eyes of the increasingly anxious parents, to the ominous veldt that the children watch obsessively in the nursery. The veldt is described using unpleasant images that make the parents and, hence the reader, uneasy: it's very hot under a blazing sun, vultures circle, and lions prowl. At one point, the lions seem to lunge at the parents, causing them to run frightened from the nursery. At other points, the parents hear screams, as if the lions are eating humans. As time goes on, hints that the veldt is a threat to the parents magnify: the Hadleys find Mr. Hadley's chewed wallet, complete with saliva and bloodstains, on the nursery floor, as well as Mrs. Hadley's bloody scarf. All of these ominous happenings hint at or foreshadow that the lions will eat the Hadley parents. This raises our suspense: are the parents irrational or reasonable in their fears? Can lions in a televised program actually destroy real humans? Will the Hadley parents actually be murdered in the nursery, as all the hints indicate? Or can get they get away?
As a software engineer, I need to sometimes describe a piece of code as something that lacks performance or was not written with performance in mind. Example: This kind of coding style leads to unmaintainable and unperformant code. Based on my Google searches, this isn't a real word. What is the correct way to describe this? EDIT My usage of "performance" here is in regard to speed and efficiency. For example, the better the performance of code the faster the application runs. My question and example target the negative definition, which is in reference to preventing inefficient coding practices. Answer This kind of coding style leads to unmaintainable and unperformant code. In my opinion, reads more easily as: This coding style leads to unmaintainable and poorly performing code. The key to well-written documentation and reports lies in ease of understanding. Adding poorly understood words such as performant decreases that ease. In addressing the use of such a poorly ...
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