Flashback, Foreshadowing, Simile, Metaphor, or Onomatopoeia
The brakes of the school bus wheezed.
Onomatopoeia
This was placed in front of the trailer at the construction site by Curly that eventually injured Dana Matherson?
What are mouse traps?
Who is Mullet Fingers/his role?
What is the running boy, an outlaw, the Mother Paula's vandal?
What pranks did Mullet Fingers do that helped delay the pancake house project? Name 3.
Survey stakes, snakes, alligators in toilets, gun in toilet, seats of bulldozers .
A long run in the Florida sun would be torture.
Metaphor or Hyperbole
What was ironic about Curly's name?
He is actually bald.
Where does Mullet Fingers live?
What is in the junkyard, in an ice cream truck?
Why did Beatrice stay with her dad after her parents divorced?
He had quickness and brains on his side, but Dana was big enough to crush him like a grape.
Simile
How did Mullet Fingers he get his nickname?
What is could catch mullets with his bare hands?
Why was it illegal for Mother Paula's to build on the Coconut Cove site?
There were three families of burrowing owls living on that land.
Why were the snakes that Mullet Fingers put in the with the dogs not dangerous?
Mouths were taped shut.
Officer Delinko trips over the owl holes.
Foreshadowing- This foreshadows that Officer Delinko will be involved in the resolution of saving the owls.
What did Curly shoot at in his bathroom?
A mouse.
Why did he go to the hospital and what was his treatment?
What is he got bit by a dog; he got a tetanus shot, antibotics and pain medicine?
What lie did the kids tell the doctor as to why they couldn't contact their parents?
The were crab fishermen.
Roy remembers the time when he stood still for 2 hours waiting for someone to rescue him from the bear encounter.
Flashback
At the end of the book, where did Roy and Curly see each other?
Looking at the owls at the Mother Paula's Pancake House site.
What is Mullet Fingers' real name?
What is Napoleon Bridger?
What does E.I.S. stand for?
Environmental Impact Statement
What is a possible THEME of the book Hoot?
Stand up for what you believe in.