Exposition
The author of the book "Stargirl."
Who is Jerry Spinelli?
The wild, new girl at Mica Area High, home-schooled until 10 grade, dresses unusually.
Who is Stargril?
Students wondered how Stargirl knew this about them.
What is their full names and birthdays?
"We tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.”
What is a simile?
The narrator in this 1st person point of view story.
Who is Leo Borlock?
Created the the theory that administration planted Stargirl to liven things up.
Who is Hillari Kemble?
She lived in a bus.
Her parents were circus acrobats.
Her parents were brain-dead vegetables in a hospital in Yuma.
What are the theories of Stargirl's origins?
I could see the shadow shaking.
What is personification?
The name of the school where Stargirl, Leo, and other students attend in the book.
What is Mica Area High School?
The name of the rat that is carried around in Stargirl's bag.
Who is Cinnamon?
This was the boy who broke his leg and was mysteriously gifted a bike.
Who is Danny Pike?
I wanted to feel myself getting closer, feel the tension rising like fizz in a soda bottle.
What is a simile?
The protagonist in the story "Star Girl."
Who is Leo?
A pathetic, useless nobody who doesn't get good grades and is not in any groups or activities and is dating Hillari Kimble.
Who is Wayne Parr?
This was the name of the girl whose grandfather died and Stargirl attended the funeral.
Who is Anna Grisdale?
It was wonderful to see, wonderful to be in the middle of: we mud frogs awakening all around.
What is a metaphor?
Stargirl struggles to either fit in or be like everyone else.
What is the conflict?
Who is Kevin?
This was what was on the card that Stargirl left in the mailbox the day that Leo followed her.
What is Congratulations?
Our players looked like five Davids flailing against Goliath.
What is an allusion?