Literary Devices
What literary device is Mem using below?
"The wind indeed is like a big fist in our face."
Simile
Mem says, "The people are sore to go to work". What does that mean?
They don't WANT to work. ( due to the cold, wet weather)
What do they name their new settlement? And WHY do they name it that?
Plimoth - it was named after "the place from which they set out from in England long ago"
This person is in charge of protecting the Pilgrims when they are on land. Mem sometimes calls him "Captain Shrimp".
Myles Standish
The house that the Pilgrims will build first is called ____________?
Common House
What literary device is Mem using below?
"They have now been thrashed within an inch of their lives."
Idiom
A crop that is grown to sell.
Cash Crop
What is Dorothy Bradford seen doing around the barrels that makes Mem feel bad for her? Why?
Talking to herself and/or crying because she misses her son.
This person made Mem's diary and gave it to her on the Mayflower.
Mam
Mem says she is "envious" of the Billingtons. WHY is she envious?
What literary device is Mem using below?
"Had one landed in the wrong place the whole Mayflower could have been blown sky-high!
Idiom
The word Mem uses to describe Hummy's father and Mistress Bradford's deep sadness.
Melancholy
True/False: The Pilgrims' first encounter with the native Americans was friendly?
False: The Native Americans shot arrows at the Pilgrims and the Pilgrims shot at the Native Americans when they first encountered.
These two people are "foul-mouthed" and "smudgy-minded." They were caught trying to drown the ship's cat and almost blew up the ship. ( Give their FULL names)
John and Francis Billington
Mem says, "Men have begun felling timber". What does this mean?
Cutting down trees
What literary device is Mem using below?
"She can screech as loud as the wind?"
Simile
The term Mem uses to describe what type of settlement they will have in the New World.
Permanent (means they will live there forever)
The Saints and Strangers signed a document to establish agreed-upon rules for the New World. This document was called the _____.
Mayflower Compact
This person wrote the Mayflower Compact.
William Bradford
WHY do buildings in the New World often catch on fire?
They are made of flammable materials - particularly thatch roof (dried grasses) and wood sides.
Mem says, "And if anything good comes out of this, perhaps it is that Master Sawyer seems a bit less withdrawn and melancholy. There is more light in his eye."
What does the idiom, "There is more light in his eye," mean?
Master Sawyer is happier
Mem uses this word for "food" - "Some pilgrims be on land with no _____________"
Victuals
Why did Mary Chilton want to be the first one off the longboat and onto the rock?
She wanted to be the first child to step foot in the New World settlement.
Her first word after "Mama" was "dank-u", which means thank you in Dutch. This horrified her mother, who was worried that her children would eventually become Dutch. They decided to leave Holland and traveled to the New World.
Blessing Whipple (Mem's little sister)
Why are so many Pilgrims getting sick and/or dying? Name 2 reasons!
Possible answers:
Not eating a good diet ; scurvy; often cold and wet