Figurative Language
A comparison between two things using like or as
What is a simile?
This characteristic differentiates the twins from each other.
What is their hair?
This is the term for the end of the story when conflict is fully corrected.
What is resolution?
The central message of a story is called this.
What is theme?
Josh gets sent to the principal's office for doing this.
What is passing a note for his brother during a test?
"The classroom was a zoo"
What is a metaphor?
JB Bell's girlfriend is given this nickname when she brings him a treat after a game.
What is Miss Sweet Tea?
Tensions start building through a sequence of events in this part of a story.
What is the rising action?
Kendrick Lamar centered his halftime show around this theme.
What is the evil of stereotypes and racism in the United States?
This action causes Josh to be suspended from the basketball team.
He throws a ball at his brothers face.
Crash! Slam! Zoom!
What is onomatopoeia?
Josh Bell lost a bet and ended up in this "calamity".
His brother was allowed to cut off a dread.
This is the turning point of a story when things rapidly change.
What is the climax?
Kwame Alexander realized he needed to do this in order to enjoy reading.
What is choose his own reading?
Josh makes this many freethrows in a row during "Overtime".
What is 49?
I am so hungry I could eat a horse!
Hyperbole
Chuck Bell suffers from this condition related to the heart.
What is hypertension?
This is the falling action in "The Three Little Pigs".
What is when the wolf runs away (or dies) and the pigs are safe again?
Storytelling is important because it does these things. (List at least 2)
What is
1. Create culture
2. Remember history
3. Allow for self-reflection
4. Give people a voice
Where is the rec center playing basketball with Josh?
A commonly known saying, like "this is a piece of cake".
What is an idiom?
This type of injury caused Chuck Bell to stop playing professional basketball.
What is an injury to the leg (patellar tendonitis)?
This is the climax in The Crossover.
What is the hospitalization of Chuck Bell?
What is acrostic?
These are the three key reasons that Josh starts to feel like his life is out of control.
1. Lost his hair
2. Losing relationship with his brother
3. Dad is sick