Literary Devices Definitions
Giving human traits to nonhuman things
Personification
A lot of bad stuff happens to Junior, and this is his coping mechanism.
Drawing cartoons
Alcohol
Words that connect ideas on writing and help our ideas flow smoothly.
Transitions
The white school Junior transfers to.
Reardan
Comparing two things using "like" or "as"
Simile
Junior gets beat up at one of these traditional Indian ceremonies where there's a lot of singing, feasting, and dancing.
Powwow
This word describes how we see ourselves.
Identity
The reservation school Junior leaves behind.
Wellpinit
Comparing two things by saying one thing IS the other
Metaphor
He betrayed his people by leaving the reservation.
Mr. P and other teachers live in one of these behind the school.
Compound
An over-simplified, widely believed idea about a group of people.
Stereotype
Hope
An extreme exaggeration for effect
Hyperbole
What Junior's classmates do when the teacher gives Junior a hard time for missing so much school after his grandma's death.
Drop their books and walk out of class.
Junior receives these two injuries during his first game against Wellpinit on the reservation.
Concussion and cut on the forehead
Poverty that exists because of a sudden crisis and is usually temporary in nature.
Situational
The state Mary moved to.
Montana
A reference to a well-known person or event from history, literature, pop culture, etc.
Allusion
Junior is called this racial slur by others because he leaves the reservation to attend a white school.
What Indian reservations were intended to be, according to Junior.
Death camps
Poverty that has existed in a family for at least two or more generations.
Generational
The name of the reservation (the tribe Junior belongs to).
Spokane Indian Reservation