Parts of Speech
Extreme exaggeration. For example, “he let out a sigh that was about as deep and long as the whistle on our locomotive.”
Hyperbole
A Somnambulist does what action?
Sleep walks
The people who wanted to stop slavery were called what?
Abolotionists
The name of the lady who owned the boarding house where Nell and Kate lived?
Mrs. Wigginbottom
What was Aunt Kitty’s character name in the rouse where she pretended to be a fortune teller?
Madame Lucille
The part of speech where the word is a sound, for example, “the faint click-clack of the horses running up and down Washington Street.”
Onomatopoeia
A secret or disguised way of writing, a code.
Cipher
What do you call the network of secret routes and safe houses established to help slaves escape to Canada?
The Underground Railway
What was the code name for Jemma’s Dad?
The Maple Tree
What was Mr. Dreysdale guilty of?
Killing his partner in order to steal money
“His hands fluttering here and there like two hummingbirds” is an example of what part of speech?
Simile
What does befuddled mean?
Confused, perplexed
What did secessionists wish to do?
Separate from the Rest of the United States.
Kate’s boss
Mr. Pinkerton
Who was Nat-Bat-cuddly-Wuddly-Cat?
Mr. Maroney
“But it seemed we were going undercover right into the hornet’s nest itself“ is a example of which part of speech?
Metaphor
What is a daguerreotype?
A photograph taken by an early photographic process.
What is a cockade and what was it’s purpose?
A knot of ribbons usually worn on a hat that were wide-spread tokens of southern support for secession just before the Civil war.
What is the name of the horrible child who Nell has to babysit?
Clara
Who is the woman hired to help Kate as a spy?
Hattie Lawton
“Bitter fingers of winter finding their way inside our rail car“ is an example of what part of speech?
Personification
What does it mean to saunter?
Walk casually
Where is Independence Hall, the building where our Constitution was debated and signed?
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
What is the name of Kate’s husband who died?
Matthew
What did Nell have to do in order to get Mr. Dreysdale to confess?
Dress up as a ghost and pretend to haunt him until he was so terrified he confessed in order to make the ghost go away.