Vocabulary
Characters
Creative Writing
Summarizing
Anything Goes!
200

A popular depiction of a fictional baseball game in Mudville.

What is "Casey At The Bat?"

200
Casey
Who is the main character of the story?
200
That a Mudville player named Cooney got out at first.
What does it really mean when it says "Cooney died at first," in the poem?
200
Mudville loses the game 4 to 2.
How does the game end for Mudville?
200

Unnamed but someone with great admiration for the game of baseball.

What is Casey At The Bat?

400

He tore the cover off of the ball.

What is "hitting the ball hard?"

400

Name four of Casey's teammates.

Who are Flynn, Blake Cooney, and Barrows?

400
It means "to take off your hat and wave it to the crowd because you're about to do something great," in this story.
What does "DOFFED" mean in the story?
400

To make it to first base.

What is to drive a single?

400
A person's facial expression or appearance.
What does "Casey's visage shone" really mean?
600

That ain't my style.

What is "what Casey said before the umpire called strike?"

600
Both get on base instead of making the final out of the game, which allows Casey to have a chance to bat and help Mudville win the game.
Who are Flynn and Jimmy Blake?
600
Casey says this to show that he didn't want to swing at the first pitch.
What does it mean "that ain't my style?"
600

Going against the rules, not listening, disobeying.

What is defiance?

600

Fails to hit the ball.

What is strike out?

800

Someone in the crowd said it and people kept yelling it.

What is "Fraud?"

800

The Mudville fans wanted this after the umpire called strike one against Casey.

What is "they wanted him killed?"

800
It's another way the author describes a baseball being pitched to the batter in the third line of the third stanza on page 333.
What does "once more the spheroid flew" mean?
800
Casey at the Bat became popular by accident (when an actor read Thayer's poem during a special performance about baseball). People loved it after this.
Summarize how Casey at the Bat became popular.
800

A dramatic reading or ballad.

What is Casey At The Bat?"

1000

Cooney dies at first.

What is "Tagged Out?"

1000

The author of Casey at the Bat, who wrote the poem for a newspaper and had it become famous only after an actor read the poem during a performance at the theater.

Who is Ernest Lawrence Thayer?

1000
The author leads us to think that because Casey is confident in himself and a star player that he will get the game winning hit for Mudville, right up to the very end of the poem.
Why is 'Casey striking out' a surprise?
1000
Mighty Casey has struck out.
What is the most important phrase of the final stanza of the poem?
1000
This means that a person hit the ball extremely hard!
What does it really mean to tear "the cover off the ball?"
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