About The Story and Author
The Plot
The Sakkaros
Randoms
Vocabulary
100
This is the author's name of Rain Rain Go Away.
What is Isaac Asimov?
100
These are the names of the 2 families (our characters) in the story.
Who are the Sakkaros and the Wrights?
100
This is why Mr. Sakkaro carries a radio with him.
What is Mr. Sakkaro wanting to know the weather?
100
This word means 'Bring back to one’s mind'.
What is 'recall'?
100
This means 'Comfort at a time of grief or disappointment'.
What is 'console'?
200
What does Mrs. Sakkaro doing in her yard at the VERY beginning of the text?
What is sunbathing?
200
Where does Tommie say the Sakkaros are from?
What is Arizona?
200
This is the Sakkaros favorite thing to eat?
What is cotton candy?
200
This means 'The time and place of the events in the story'.
What is 'setting'?
200
This means 'Calm, peaceful, or untroubled'.
What is 'serene'?
300
What type of blinds does Lillian Wright look through?
What are venetian blinds.
300
This is the genre of the text Rain Rain Go Away. Be specific.
What is 'science fiction'?
300
The Sakkaro boy's favorite pastime.
What is bouncing a ball off the side of the building?
300
What is an anagram?
a word, phrase, or name formed by rearranging the letters of another, such as cinema, formed from iceman.
300
This is 'A statement or action expressing disapproval'.
What is 'protest'?
400
George says that the Sakkaros son is always outside throwing a ball against the wall. What does he say it is a version of?
What is Chinese water torture?
400
This is the climax of the story.
What is the point in the story where the rain starts to fall?
400
This is what Mr. Wright and Mr. Sakkaro have in common.
What is 'neither leave home for work'?
400
This phrase means 'What happens in a story leading up to the most exciting part of a story.'.
What is 'rising action'?
400
This means 'artificial behavior to impress others'?
What is 'affectation'?
500
What did the Sakkaro boy carry in his hand on the way to Lillian and George's car before heading to Murphy's Park?
What is an aneroid barometer, or barometer.
500
This is the conflict in the story.
What is 'Mrs. Wright vs. the Sakkaros', or 'Mrs. Wright wants to find out why her neighbors act so strangely'?
500
This is the saying Mrs. Wright says at the very end of the story that proves to be true about the Sakkaros. It is also the resolution.
What is 'you would think they were made of sugar and afraid they would melt'?
500
This word means 'Writer gives hints of what is to come later in the story'.
What is 'foreshadowing'?
500
This means 'outward appearance'.
What is 'semblance'?
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