Billie Jo
Music
School
Figurative Language
Grab Bag
100
What is one way that Billie Jo describers her self?
What is one way that Billie Jo describers her self?Long-legged, wide mouth, cheekbones like bicycle handles, redheaded, freckle-faced, narrow-hipped girl with a fondness for apples and a hunger for playing fierce piano
100
What is the instrument that Billie Jo play's the best?
The piano
100
What is the following sentence: "She smelled like scorched meat."
A simile
100
Where did this book take place?
Oklahoma
200
Where was Billie Jo born?
A kitchen floor
200
How does Billie Jo ask Mama to get permission to play at the Palace?
She waits till Mama is distracted
200
What type of school does Billie Jo's father go to called?
a night school
200
What is the following sentence: "The grasshoppers came right over me."
A hyperbole
200
How did Billie Jo have to set the table at home?
She had to flip the bowls and cups over facing them down due to the dust
300
What does Billie Jo think Mr. Hardly is charging to much for?
stale food
300
What is Arley Wonderdale's wife name?
Vera Wonderdale
300
She walks How does Billie Jo get to school?
She walks
300
What is the following sentence: "It's the best I've ever felt, playing hot piano."
Personification
400
What is the name of Billie Jo's brother?
Franklin
400
What does Billie Jo thinks she plays like in her mind?
Stormy Weather
400
What does Billie Jo call the school when she is having a memory with Levie?
Old Rock Schoolhouse
400
What is the following sentence:"...and a hunger for playing fierce piano."
Personification
500
How did the dust bowls heart Billy Jo's hands?
It teared them up leaving them hurting and burning
500
What place did Billie Jo get in the competition, and what was her prize?
Billie Jo got Third and her prize was one dollar
500
What is the school called that she goes to?
A School House
500
What is the following sentence:"Right hand playing notes as sharp as tongues,..."
Personification
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