What type of figurative language is being used in the sentence below?
"Everything moved very, very fast when Momma was near, she was like a tornado, never resting, always looking around us, never standing still."
What is a simile
100
How would you describe Buds personality
who is brave and determined
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100
Where Bud keeps his most valuable possessions.
What is his suitcase
100
The type of conflict that Bud and Todd have when they are fighting.
What is character vs. character
100
What does Bud receive to put on his oatmeal.
What is brown sugar
200
"My heart started jumping around in my stomach as soon as I reached out for the shotgun."
What is personification
200
How would you describe Todd's character and personailty
who is mean, a liar, selfish
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200
Who does Bud believe is his father?
Who is the man in the band on the blue flyer
200
The point of view that the novel is told.
What is first person - Bud's point of view
200
What where the three little flat "monster heads" guarding the doorknob of the shed?
What is fish heads
300
"I put my hand out like Paul Robeson running down the football field."
What is an allusion
300
How would you describe the officer at the mission that didn't let Bud on the line?
who is impatient, rude, unfriendly, uncaring
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300
Bud's name means. . .
What is a flower-to-be
300
The setting of the novel is...
What is The Great Depression
300
Why doesn't Bud let people call him Buddy?
What is Bud's mother told him not to let people call him Buddy because Buddy is a dog's name
400
"A chain rattled, the lock came off and the door creaked open. Even though it was nighttime there was a whole different, scarier kind of dark in the shed...An old smell leaked out and it seemed like it as the perfect smell that all this gray would have."
What is imagery
400
Describe "Pretend Poppa"
who is an upstander, compassionate, caring
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400
The way Bud gets breakfast at the mission.
What is a couple pretends that he is their son, and he goes in with them.
400
What is the title of the things that Bud lives by
What is Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things to Have a Funner Life and Make a Better Liar Out of Yourself
400
What is ironic about the sign at the mission that says "There's no place like America today!"
What is there is a Great Depression going on and it's hanging in a place where people are coming to get a free meal
500
What does Bud's mother really mean by the words
"when one door closes, don't worry, because another door opens"
What is when one opportunity ends, don't worry, because another one will appear.
500
Describe Bud's momma
Who is determined, opinionated, busy, full of energy, believed in her son
(Answers may vary)
500
Bud keeps these in his suitcase.
What is flyers, rocks, a picture of his mother, a blanket
500
What happened to Bud's parents
What is his mother died and he doesn't know his father
500
What is the name of the band that Bud thinks his father is in?
What is HERMAN E. CALLOWAY and the Dusky Devastators of the Depression!!!!!!