Short Stories
Which language does Victor pretend to know?
French
Lemon Brown saying, “I used to travel around and make money for to feed my wife and Jesse-that’s my boy’s name," is an example of the way he talks, also known as his__________.
Dialect
'Monsters Marching Malevolently down Maple Street' is an example of what?
Alliteration
Who is the protagonist in "The Treasure of Lemon Brown?"
Greg Ridley
The word ROAR in "At the sound of the roar it will be 6:43 pm..." is an example of what?
Onomatopoeia
Was Tommy 100% correct about what he warned the neighborhood about?
No, none of the people were actually aliens.
What specific GENRE is "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street?"
Science Fiction
"Maple Street was a bedlam, an outdoor asylum for the insane" is an example of what?
Metaphor
Who is the first person to get blamed in "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street?"
Les Goodman
True or false: The mood of a story is how the reader feels when reading it.
True
He's a criminal
What is dialogue?
Anything a character says in a story.
'Victor was so embarrassed that he was going to die' is an exaggeration, which is also called a what?
Hyperbole
What is the Teacher's name in "Seventh Grade?"
Mr. Bueller
"Maple Street in the last moments of calm before the monsters came..." (DUN DUN DUN) is an example of what?
Foreshadowing
Why is Lemon Brown homeless?
"Hard times"
What is considered to be the most exciting part in a story that changes the rest of the plot? (Think of the plot pyramid)
The climax
"Lemon Brown's singing was sweet like honey" is an example of what?
A simile
What are the two main character's names in "After Twenty Years?"
"Silky" Bob and Jimmy Wells
Victor is to "Seventh Grade" as Greg is to ______________.
"The Treasure of Lemon Brown."
Which short story that we read (out of "Seventh Grade," "The Treasure of Lemon Brown," "After Twenty Years," and "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street") is set the furthest back in the past?
"After Twenty Years"
You would not expect a police officer and a criminal to be former friends. This is an example of what?
Irony
The harmonica in "The Treasure of Lemon Brown" has a deeper meaning besides being a musical instrument. It represents Lemon's love for his son. What literary term is this an example of?
Symbolism
What is Victor's Love interest's name ?
Theresa
What point of view is this sentence written in?
"As I walked out of the movie house, I had two things on my mind..."
First person