COLORS
ANIMALS
ADVERSARIES
SENSES
METAPHORS/SIMILES
100
What color was Phoenix's head rag?
What is RED
100
Name 3 of the six animals that Phoenix told to get out of her way?
What is FOXES,OWLS,BEETLES,JACK RABBITS,COONS,AND WILD ANIMALS.
100
What 2 health ailments is she suffering from?
What is OLD AGE AND POOR EYE SIGHT
100
Phoenix drank and tasted water from a spring with what in it that made it sweet?
What is SWEET GUM
100
What was compared as a metaphor to GOD watching her stealing the nickel?
What is a BIRD FLYING BY
200
Phoenix's eyes were what color with age?
What is BLUE
200
What animal did Phoenix thank the good Lord for making to curl up and sleep in the winter and it took her a while to get by the previous summer?
What is a 2 HEADED SNAKE
200
What was Phoenix talking to when she said, "You doing your appointed work. Never want to let folks pass, no sir."
What is a THORNY BUSH
200
What did Phoenix see and thought was a ghost?
What is a SCARE CROW
200
Her skin had a pattern all its own of numberless branching wrinkles and as though a whole little what stood in the middle of her forehead?
What is a TREE
300
Two knobs of Phoenix's cheeks were illumined by a burning of what color?
What is YELLOW
300
Phoenix told what animal to "sleep on and blow your bubbles"?
What is ALLIGATORS
300
What animal delayed her trip and knocked her into a ditch?
What is a BLACK DOG
300
After her and the hunter went in different directions, what could she hear over and over again over the hill?
What is GUN SHOTS
300
Which simile hung from the oak trees to the road like curtains?
What is SHADOWS
400
What color were the stalks of the withered cotton field?
What is PURPLE
400
Phoenix said, "Keep the big wild what out of my path?
What is HOGS
400
Who pointed a gun in Phoenix's face and tried to scare her?
What is a YOUNG WHITE HUNTER
400
What 2 things did Phoenix smell before she saw a steeple and the cabins and encountered dozens of little black kids whirling around her?
What is WOOD SMOKE AND THE RIVER
400
"At last there came a flicker and then a flame of comprehension across her face" is a metaphor used to describe what action Phoenix did next?
What is SPEAK
500
What color were the wrapped gifts of the lady who tied Phoenix's shoe laces?
What is RED, GREEN, AND SILVER.
500
What animal did the author use a metaphor for the tapping of the frozen earth sound that was grave and persistent in the still air?
What is SOLITARY LITTLE BIRD CHIRPING
500
What trial waited for Phoenix at the foot of the hill?
What is a LOG LAID ACROSS A CREEK
500
What did she feel come over her body after she said, "HERE I BE"?
What is A FIXED AND CEREMONIAL STIFFNESS
500
Under her small black-freckled hand her cane, limber as a which simile, would she switch at the brush.
What is a BUGGY WHIP
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