This vocabulary word refers to something that falling apart or shabby.
What is dilapidated?
100
This term refers to how an author makes the reader feel using images that appeal to our senses.
What is mood?
100
The place where Buddy and his friend keeps their holiday fund.
What is under a floorboard beneath the bed/a chamber pot?
100
Which of the following is something Buddy and his friend did NOT an activity that builds their friendship.
-Flying Kites, Traveling, Making Decorations, or Drinking Whiskey.
What is traveling?
100
The title of this story.
What is "A Christmas Memory."
200
This vocabulary word's definition is widespread killing; slaughter.
What is carnage?
200
This term expresses how an author feels in the story.
What is tone?
200
Buddy and his friend give these to everyone except his friends and his family.
What is fruitcake?
200
This person has strong feelings about God.
What is Buddy's friend?
200
Who is the author of this story?
Who is Truman Capote?
300
This vocabulary word refers to something spreading over or through.
What is suffuse?
300
A forest, a riverside cafe, and the attic are all elements of this literary term in "A Christmas Memory."
What is the setting?
300
Buddy rarely acknowledges their existence.
Who are Buddy's other relatives?
300
At the end of the story, Buddy is sent to this place by his other relatives and is separated from his friend.
What is military school.
300
Something that appeals to the 5 senses.
What are sensory details?
400
This vocabulary word means something that is disrespectful toward religion.
What is sacrilegious?
400
What is the main custom that is a MAJOR part of the setting and mood of "A Christmas Memory?"
What is making and giving gifts. (Making fruitcakes, giving gifts to one another and other family members).
400
This phrase "A morning arrives...when she cannot rouse herself to exclaim: 'Oh my, it's fruitcake weather!'" gives the reader clues that...
Buddy's friend has died.
400
The image: "a hateful heap of bitter-ODORED pennies," appeals to this sense.
What is the sense of smell?
400
The genre of this story.
What is autobiography or autobiographical narrative?
500
This vocabulary word refers to something or someone who is ordinary or simple might be called this.
What is prosaic?
500
"Flapjacks" and "hominy grits" helps the reader to understand more about where the story takes place (The South, 1930s). Why?
What is this things show the customs of characters in that time and place?
500
The word GENEROUS describes this person.
Who is Buddy's friend?
500
A bantam hen is a very busy and lively type of chicken. Buddy refers to his friend as a "bantam hen" because she is...