Who said what!?
"You wear the right outfit and you feel like the person you're pretending to be."
Grandmother
Identify: run-on sentence or fragment:
The rain compounded on the ground and the children had to rush inside they weren't allowed to play outside anymore.
Run-on
What do Bruno and Shmuel have in common?
Birthday and age.
What is the meaning of hopeless?
Feeling or causing despair
When the author goes back in time to give the reader more information about the present.
1)Fury comes to dinner
2) Grandmother and disapproval of Father
"Just because a man glances up at the sky at night doesn't make him an astronomer."
Pavel
Correct this comma splice:
The rain compounded on the ground, the children ran inside for shelter.
The rain compounded on the ground. The children ran inside for shelter.
The rain compounded on the ground; the children ran inside for shelter.
The rain compounded on the ground, so the children ran inside for shelter.
What does Bruno see at the train station?
He sees another train going in the same direction full of people.
Define exasperation.
a feeling or annoyance
What is foreshadowing?
Give an example from story?
When the author gives clues or hints about what is going to happen.
The bad weather keeping Bruno from going to Shmuel foreshadows the dangerous event that is about to happen.
"The soldiers don't normally like people getting better."
Shmuel
Fix this fragment:
Sitting on the stairs.
(variety of answers)
Which room in the house at Out-With is off limits, no exceptions?
Father's office
Use discrimination in a sentence.
(variety)
How does the reader know Bruno's family is wealthy?
Maid
"Aren't you a little old for an imaginary friend?"
Gretel
Identify the subordinating conjunction, dependent clause, and independent clause:
While the students ran down the hall, the bell rang.
While: subordinating conjunction
while the students ran down the hall: dependent clause
the bell rang: independent clause
Why is Shmuel at Bruno's house in chapter 14?
Use disdain in a sentence.
variety
Identify the character:
father ran away
young
charming
Lieutenant Kotler
"Accept the situation in which you find yourself and everything will be easier."
Father
Independent clause + dependent clause with subordinating conjunction.
Why is the narrator in third person limited?
to give us Bruno's perspective and to show through innocence, the atrocities of the war.
Which two vocabulary words are antonyms?
inferior and superior
Identify the subordinating conjunction, dependent clause, and independent clause in this sentence:
Bruno went to the fence every day although he knew it was not a good idea.
Bruno went to the fence every day although he knew it was not a good idea.