Vocabulary
Giving lifelike qualities to something nonhuman or inanimate.
What is personification
Identify and explain why
"THE RULES / No. 1: Crying / No. 2: Snitching / No. 3: Revenge"
What is repetition because No. is repeated in these lines of poetry.
The age of Will Holloman.
What is 15.
Buck's reaction when Will reveals his plan to him.
What is Buck laughs at him?
Author of Long Way Down.
Who is Jason Reynolds?
A word or phrase repeated to emphasize its significance throughout a text
What is repetition
Identify and explain
"Beefy smoke / thick enough / to chew / filled the / small box."
What is imagery because the beefy smoke and think enough to chew appeals to our taste and visual senses.
The three things that happen when someone is killed.
What is screaming, sirens, and questions.
The Guest on the 6th floor and what happens to her when she and Will were 8.
Who is Dani and that she was shot and killed right in front of Will.
The meaning of fatalism and why it is prevalent among teens.
What is the belief that all events are controlled by fate and an uncontrollable power. This is prevalent among teens because they follow societal "rules" of what they think they HAVE to do, when is reality, they have control over their decisions. It's just hard for them to realize this.
The repetition of a beginning sound
What is alliteration
Identify and explain
“The tape / framed it like it was art.”
What is a simile because the tape is being compared to art using "like"
The relationship between Will and Shawn.
What is they got along well. Will looked up to Shawn, even though he didn't always make good choices. Shawn tried to help Will through new stages of life.
Uncle Mark's dream and how it turned out.
What is to shoot a movie but he started selling drugs to make money for a camera, but ended up selling instead, until he was shot.
The reason why this book was written in blank verse instead of prose.
An Interruption or break in the lines of poetry
What is caesura
Identify and explain
“Every time / I forget / my tongue / goes looking / for the space / where the tooth / used to be."
What is a metaphor because losing someone is being compared to having a missing tooth in your mouth without like or as.
The man who gets on the elevator on the 7th floor.
Who is Buck
Reason for Mikey Holloman death?
What is he was killed for killing Uncle Mark's killer.
Purpose of the program Choose to Change.
To give support, mentoring and therapy to disrupt the deadly cycle of violence.
Words that are spelled as they sound
What is onomatopoeia
Identify and explain
"The elevator / sighed / and / heaved / as if / it were / as tired / as I was."
What is personification because the elevator is given human like qualities even though it's inanimate.
Will's plan.
What is he is going to steal Shawn's gun. Early in the morning before everyone is awake, he will ring Rigg's doorbell and shoot him when he opens the door
The reason Frick Killed Buck?
What is because he was only supposed to rob him, but Buck laughed at him and tried to fight back, so Frick killed him.
The idea Jason Reynolds wants us to most understand about gun violence and youths.
The youths who commit violence are kids and need to be treated as kids instead of wiping them "with a broad brush"