Comprehension I
AG
The woman with Hector in the end
Who is his mom?
"Zero sat as still as a statue."
What is a simile?
A black woman who refused to give up her seat for a white man in 1955.
Who is Rosa Parks?
A conjunction placed between words, phrases, clauses, or sentences of equal rank.
What are Coordinating Conjunctions?
How Stanley got rid of the curse.
What is carrying Madame Zeroni's descendant up the mountain?
The name on the suitcase
Stanley Yelnats
"Only ten more million to go," he thought.
What is hyperbole?
A set of laws which segregated the races and disenfranchised black Americans
What are Jim Crow Laws?
A conjunction that creates dependent clauses with words like "although" and "because"
What is a Subordinating Conjunction?
What's going to happen to Camp Green Lake?
What is become a Girl Scout camp?
Why Zero says Satan near the end.
What is he was trying to read Stanley's name?
"He's a mole," Zigzag said [about Zero]. "I think he eats dirt."
What is a metaphor?
An organization founded in 1909 to help African Americans seek justice.
What is the NAACP?
The words that make up the acronym FANBOYS
What is for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so?
The contents of the suitcase
Cheap jewels, stocks, deeds, and promissory notes that earned Stanley and Zero about a million dollars each.
How Part Two ends. What this indicates.
It rains on Camp Green Lake. This means the curse is over.
"Out in the sun all day. You know how it is, your blood starts to boil."
What is an idiom?
Laws banning white people from marrying Black or other nonwhite partners.
What are anti-miscegenation laws?
A clause that can function as a sentence.
What is an independent clause?
A product that neutralizes odor-causing fungi and bacteria.
What is Sploosh?
Squid's real name.
What is Alan?
At the start, Mr. Pendanski tells Stanley he's going to help him turn his life around. At the end, he offers to shoot him.
What is irony?
A 2-day long white supremacist massacre that destroyed black homes and businesses.
What is the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre?
Two independent clauses joined together with no punctuation.
What is a fused sentence? (Also: run-on)