What is the healing power of nature, the power of the individual over a community, or the power of a community over an individual?
100
The central idea or message in a literary work
What is theme?
100
Name one reason Paul Fleischman chose Cleveland as his setting for Seedfolks.
What is he had friends there, there was a large foreign-born population, or it had short summers?
200
Finds a locket in the garden
Who is Virgil
200
Helps Sam plant in the garden
Who is the Puerto Rican teenager?
200
A reference in a literary work to a person, place, or thing in history or another work of literature
What is allusion?
200
The characteristic speech and thought patterns of a first-person narrator
What is voice?
200
The "affliction" Paul Fleischman makes reference to in the first paragraph.
What is he cannot eat alone without having something, anything, to read?
300
Works as a school janitor
Who is Wendell?
300
The Puerto Rican teenager talks to her instead of Maricela
Who is Dolores?
300
"The man screamed just like women do with a mouse in cartoons, only louder."
What is simile?
300
"Gardening boring? Never! It has suspense, tragedy, startling developments -- a soap opera growing out of the ground."
What is metaphor?
300
The place Paul Fleischman got the idea about the Ancient Egyptians prescribing walks for the mentally ill that he included in "Nora."
What is a local psychotherapist was using this technique with her patients?
400
Moved back from Cincinnati and is looking for a wife
Who is Curtis?
400
Gives the pregnant teenagers a lecture about "decorum"
Who is Miss Fleck?
400
"Can't stop people calling me Atlas or Ceps."
What is Allusion?
400
"A veil drops over our eyes when we're writing, shielding us from that realization."
What is figurative language/metaphor?
400
Paul Fleischman's conclusion about television
What is "Television has isolated us more than class, race, or ethnicity?
500
Manages a fabric store
Who is Amir?
500
Her father was an orchestra violinist
Who is the Polish Woman
500
What two literary terms apply to the following: "People bent over like coolies, walking sometimes three or four blocks ..."
What are allusion and simile?
500
This literary term applies to Paul Fleischman's description of his "affliction" in "From Seed to Seedfolks."
What is hyperbole?
500
Name one example of Paul Fleischman's mother's volunteerism.
What is she volunteered with veterans in gardening programs; tutored Spanish-speaking kids in English; arranged book giveaways; or she learned Braille to translate books for the blind.