Figurative Language
Miscellaneous
Vocabulary
Misc II
Characters
100
We did not know what to make of her [Stargirl]. In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.
What is simile?
100
Susan Carraway
What is Stargirl's real name?
100
Approaching the same point from different directions
What is converging?
100
A birthday gift left on Leo's doorstep
What is a porcupine necktie?
100
Cactus in the desert
Who is Senor Saguaro?
200
She [Stargirl] seemed marooned in a sea of staring, buzzing faces.
What is metaphor?
200
Mudpie, Hollygolly, Pocket Mouse
What were Stargirl's other names?
200
Extravagant act or gesture
What is antic?
200
Faculty adviser of Hot Seat
Who is Mr. Robineau?
200
Stargirl's true friend
Who is Dori Dilson?
300
It was a golden age, those few weeks in December and January. How could I know that when the end came, I would be in the middle of it?
What is foreshadowing?
300
I pledge allegiance to the United Turtles of America
What is Stargirl's version of I pledge allegiance?
300
Asleep; not active
What is dormant?
300
Archie Brubaker's deceased Siamese
Who is Monroe?
300
On-screen host of Hot Seat
Who is Kevin?
400
Senor Saguaro was a cactus, a thirty-foot-tall giant that towered over the toolshed in the backyard. It had two arms high on the trunk. One stuck straight out; the other made a right turn upward, as if waving “adios!” The waving arm was green from the elbow up; all else was brown, dead. Much of the thick, leathery skin along the trunk had come loose and crumpled in a heap about the massive foot: Senor Saguaro had lost his pants. Only his ribs, thumb-thick vertical timbers, held him up.
What is personification?
400
Two hours away
What is the distance to Red Rock?
400
Cheerfully; carefree
What is blithely?
400
Hot Seat's up-close camera and its operator
What is Chico?
400
Stargirl attended her grandfather's funeral
Who is Anna Grisdale?
500
They lie dormant and waiting, these mud frogs, for without water their lives are incomplete, they are not fully themselves. For many months they sleep like this within the earth. And then the rain comes. And a hundred pairs of eyes pop out of the mud, and at night a hundred voices call across the moonlit water… It was wonderful to see, wonderful to be in the middle of: we mud frogs awakening all around.
What is analogy?
500
Stargirl left this in a mailbox the day Leo followed her into the desert
What is a congratulations card?
500
Craze; excessively popular thing to do
What is mania?
500
It was here that the cheerleaders left Stargirl behind
Where is Red Rock?
500
Critically injured after a bicycle accident, presented with a new bike from Stargirl after returning home from the hospital
Who is Danny Pike?
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