Character Identification
Setting
Dialogue
Significance of a quote
Literary Devices
100
"But how will I get home again? I live near the school"
Who is Caroline?
100
"...white, cold. He'd reached for an apple on the counter, and a woman had come toward him, her arm raised..."
What is the kitchen of the Children's House?
100
"It's falling off the side of the wall, banging back and forth."
Who are Sam and Onji?
100
"Bold", she said. Bold castle, just right."
What is Caroline's response to the finished castle and the name Sam chose for it?
100
"Mack was a giant."
What is a metaphor?
200
"Sam has to know the world...one thing we can do...is to give him the world of books."
Who is Anima?
200
"It was a miserable place. Spiders wandering across the board."
What is the Resource Room?
200
"We'll keep at it, work on it; really try."
Who is Mrs. Waring?
200
"Is Mack my real grandfather?"
What is Sam's greatest worry?
200
"The sky separating itself from the water."
What is personification?
300
"Those freckles looked like constellations."
Who is Caroline? And Yes! It's also a metaphor!
300
"...they dug into the wood of the windowsill easily as he began to draw the C."
What is the Resource Room?
300
"Let me tell you." "No, let me tell you."
Who are Caroline and Sam?
300
"...at the table with its cloth as they sat down. The paneled kitchen was always cozy, with flames from the fireplace casting orange light over them, but now everything seemed strange, almost as if he didn't belong."
What is Sam's 11th birthday, and the evening he considers his greatest fear--what if he doesn't belong?
300
There were creaking sounds. The house settling all around us. "Breathing."
What is personification?
400
"All the chicken you want forever."
Who is Anima?
400
"...things taped to the walls: paint swatches, a shamrock, an old paper fan, and on a table, jars filled with brushes and sharp little knives.
What is Caroline's mother's studio?
400
"Nice, go ahead. It's warm, sunny. A good idea."
Who is Mack and Sam?
400
"We're all friends in fifth grade."
Who is Mrs. Stanek, and what is she constantly reminding the 5th grade.
400
"Touch the right button, and everything will come spewing out."
What is an extended metaphor?
500
Ancient and crabby.
Who is Night Cat?
500
"Piles of sweet-smelling wooden planks stretched from one end to the other, and boxes of screws and nails were stacked against the wall."
Where is outside of Mack's wood shop?
500
"I want to know." "About when you came?"
Who is Sam and Anima?
500
"I'm a sphinx."
Who is Caroline, describing herself for the first time to Sam?
500
"...jackets on hooks that looked like old men in a row, a jumble of boots crisscrossed over each other..."
What is a simile?
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