Figurative Language
Byron's Bad Behavior
Birmingham
Flint and Friends
Starts with a B Ends with an Uh- Oh
100
Wilona Watson
What is an alliteration?
100
A hairstyle Byron got.
What is a conk?
100
Suspects of the church bombing.
Who are two white men?
100
Two brothers new to Flint.
Who are Rufus and Cody Fry?
100
The car Dad uses to drive to Birmingham without stopping.
What is the Brown Bomber?
200
"Birmingham is like an oven."
What is a simile?
200
Momma's attempt at punishing Byron.
What is burn his finger?
200
A route took for most of the way to Birmingham.
What is route I-75?
200
The bully of kindergarten to fourth grade in Flint.
Who is Larry Dunn?
200
A type of storm that occurs in the beginning of the novel.
What is a blizzard?
300
A DOOM DA DOOM sound coming out of the Ultra-Glide.
What is an onomatopeia?
300
The amount of grades Byron stayed back.
What is two?
300
The amount of lives lost at Collier's Landing according to Joe Collier's sign.
What is six lives?
300
The store Byron and Kenny are sent to in Chapter 6.
What is Mitchell's Grocery Store?
300
Momma's name for Byron after flicking his hair up in Chapter 7.
What is a bozo?
400
"Momma and Dad threatened to send Byron to Grandma Sands about a million times"
What is a hyperbole?
400
Murder weapon of the mourning dove.
What is a Swedish Creme cookie?
400
Trouble found in Birmingham and most of the south.
What is segregation?
400
The Watsons' neighbor.
Who is Mrs. Davidson?
400
Kenny thinks that Byron meeting Grandma Sands is like the Sheik meeting another famous wrestler.
Who is Bobo Brazil?
500
Dad's comparison to the Tennessee air; "have our fingers in God's beard and we are tickling him."
What is imagery?
500
Byron's failed plan the night before the trip to Birmingham.
What is run away?
500
The effect Birmingham's heat had on Joey before the church bombing.
What is hallucination?
500
The Watson children's school in Flint.
What is Clark Elementary?
500
The library where Byron borrows a lot of nasty magazines from.
What is Buphead's library?
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