Simile or Metaphor
Personification or Hyperbole
Word Study
Plot Diagram of Part Time Indian
Part time Indian facts
100
Junior said in Part Time Indian, "I was a freaky alien" This is an example of what figurative language.
What is a metaphor?
100
But I can't blame my parents for our poverty because my mother and father ......... my world would EXPLODE without them. This is an example of personification or hyperbole
What is hyperbole?
100
The noise from the baby crying in the seat behind me detracted my attention throughout the movie. The prefix de means ____ in this sentence.
What is From or Off
100
Junior gets angry and throws a book at his teacher because he discovers his mom's name in the beginning of the text. This is the ______________________ part in the plot diagram.
What is the Climax
100
Why does Junior try out for the basketball team?
What is.......
200
Junior said in Part Time Indian, "They stared at me like i was Bigfoot or a UFO." This is an example of what figurative language.
What is a simile?
200
This is an example of of personalization or metaphor figurative language "My hopes and dreams floated up in a mushroom cloud."
What is personification?
200
That student was extremely hyper due to the fact he drank an energy drink an hour before. The word Hyper means
What is over or overly
200
Junior is a 9th grade Indian boy who lives on the Spokane Indian Reservation in the the Northwest part of the United States. This is the _____________________ section of the plot diagram.
What is Exposition?
200
3. Why does Junior say ‘it was like something out of Shakespeare’ (p. 142) when he discovers their first game is against Wellinpit?
What is ........
300
Junior said in Part Time Indian, "My head was so big that little Indian skulls orbited around it." This is an example of what figurative language.
What is metaphor?
300
This is an example of personification or hyperbole fromt the following quote "and living engine slowed down"
What is personification?
300
We have tried to reduce the amount of writing you will have to do by making what we are saying more concise. The prefix in this word concise means
What is "with" or "thoroughly"
300
Junior grows up to write many poems, short stories, and films about his life both on and off the reservation. This is based upon his real life.
What is Resolution or ending?
300
1. What good things about his culture does Junior realize?
What is ......
400
Junior said in Part Time Indian, "I could see the blue veins running through their skin like rivers." This is an example of what figurative language.
What is a simile
400
The quote is example of _____________. I wanted to run faster than the speed of sound. Personification or hyperbole?
What Hyperbole?
400
2) Despite the new releases from Sony and Nintendo , the new X-box is the most anticipated gaming console release of 2013. The prefix anti-means
What is "opposite" or "against"
400
Junior attends school at Wellpinit with his best friend, Rowdy. They attend the local Pow Wow and get in a fight with some 30 year old guys, read comic books together, and hang out on the rez.
What is the rising action.
400
2. Why does Junior describe his grandmother as tolerant?
What is .......
500
Junior said in Part Time Indian, " "My mother and father are twin suns around which I orbit." This is an example of what figurative language.
What is metaphor?
500
This quote represents __________________ type of figurative language "When I first started teaching here, that's what we did to the rowdy ones, you know? We beat them. That's how we were taught to teach you. We were supposed to kill the Indian to save the child." Personification or hyperbole?
What is hyperbole
500
This sentence uses the prefix, mono, which means -Doing the same thing every day is so monotonous. mono means
What is one?
500
Junior attends the dance with his love, Penelope. He admits he is poor, and is afraid no one will like him anymore. But both Penelope and Roger both understand and Roger often gives him a ride home from school.
What is falling action?
500
Why is the novel called The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian?
What is ..........
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