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Maniac Magee Questions
100
It is a word that is a sound (sound word).
What is onomotopeia?
100
This a word that describes a noun or a pronoun.
What is an adjective?
100
"...The dumb, scraggly runt would get out of the East End in about as good a shape AS A BARE BIG TOE IS A CONVENTION OF SNAPPING TURTLES."p.32
What is a simile?
100
"...the Tinseled Trees of Two Mills" p.112
What is alliteration?
100
The two voices Maniac heard in the cabin.
Who are Russell and Piper?
200
A comparison of two unlike things using like or as.
What is a simile?
200
This is an overexaggeration.
What is a hyperbole?
200
"HE COULD SEE Mars Bar's foot sticking out, trying to trip him up as he circled the bases for a home run. HE COULD SEE Mars Bar charging from behind to tackle him even when he didn't have the football.
What is repetition? p.57
200
"They fire toy submachine guns -TATA-TATA-TATA-TATA- at the Cobras." p.134
What is an onomotopeia?
300
A comparison of two unlike things that doesn't use like or as.
What is a metaphor?
300
This is a word that is very vivid and can be mental or physical. It allows the reader to see what the characters are doing.
What is a vivid verb?
300
"Bodies. Skin. Colors. Water. Gleaming. Buttery. Warm. Cool. Wet. Screaming. Happy" p.59
What is an adjective?
300
"THE WHOLE PLACE WAS A SHEET OF RED-HOT LAVA" p.136
What is hyperbole
400
A phrase that uses the same letter sound over over again.
What is alliteration?
400
This is a type of language that describes something that actually happens.
What is literal language?
400
"Maniac DANCED and PRANCED and SCREAMED with the rest." p.60
What is a verb?
400
"Faring: WILL I FLOAT?" p.134
What is figurative language?
500
Giving human qualities to an inanimate object.
What is personfication?
500
This is language that is descriptive that didn't really happen. It has a different meaning- "Born in a dump"
What is figurative language?
500
"Within an hour or two THE HOLIDY WOULD COME BOUNDING DOWN THE STAIRS AND SQUEALING 'round the tinseled trees of Two Mills." p. 112
What is personification?
500
This is what Maniac Magee was looking for all along and he finally found it at the end of the novel.
What is a home?
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