Winter Poems
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Poetic Devices
100
This is something Billie Jo never learned to make from her mother.
What is cranberry sauce?
100
This is what father decides to do in case the farm fails.
What is attend night school?
100
This is something Billie Jo notices about her father's skin.
What are spots?
100
This is what Pa keeps on the mantle next to Ma's poetry and the loan from FERA.
What is an invitation from Aunt Ellis?
100
A black cloud as big as Montana.
What is a simile?
200
This is an event that causes Billie Jo to smile, her father to laugh and the town to forget the dust.
What is the President's Birthday Ball?
200
This is how Pete Guymon dies.
What is Dust Pneumonia?
200
This is what Billie Jo hates.
What is fire?
200
After the storm everything is covered in dust, this quits working right after Billie Jo wonders how it got them home.
What is the truck?
200
Spilling from gutters, gushing through gullies
What is alliteration?
300
Billie Jo and her teacher discover that this has moved into their school in the middle of the night.
What is a family of five?
300
This is what Billie Jo refuses to touch.
What is Ma's piano?
300
This is where Billie Jo and her father are going when the Black Blizzard strikes.
What is a funeral?
300
This is what smothers Billie Jo's hope.
What is dust?
300
An engine choked with dust.
What is personification?
400
When the sheriff breaks up the moonshine operation, he saves this for the children.
What is sugar?
400
This is why Billie Jo insists on walking home in the dust storm.
What is Pa would come looking for her and his death would be on her conscience?
400
This is why Mad Dog is going to Texas.
What is to sing?
400
In the poem, "Bones," Billie Jo compares her self to this.
What is a dinosaur?
400
She didn't think they could squeeze a rattle snake in the back even if he paid full price.
What is hyperbole?
500
This is what Billie Jo wins in the talent competition (2 things)
What is a dollar and a ribbon?
500
Billie Jo says she wouldn't be so eager to leave if she had this.
What is her mother?
500
This is what the slow patient rain brings to Billie Jo.
What is hope?
500
Instead of playing Ma's piano, Billie Jo sits at the piano and does this.
What is imagine songs?
500
The wind took my voice and busted it into a thousand pieces. (There are at least two)
What are personification and imagery or hyperbole?
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