Plot
This is what happened when the students of Mica started winning their basketball games.
What is they became prideful and mean-spirited?
This is Leo’s best friend and host of Hot Seat.
Who is Kevin?
The moral or lesson a story teaches.
What is theme?
This is the term for a comparison of two unlike things.
What is a metaphor?
This is why Leo and Stargirl's relationship work at the end of the novel.
What is Leo cannot simply accept Stargirl for who she is?
This is why the Hot Seat episode featuring Stargirl never airs.
What is the jury was overly cruel in their questioning?
This person appreciates Stargirl as a person but is also caught up in what other people think.
Who is Leo?
The struggle between opposing forces that drives the plot, creates tension, and reveals character.
What is conflict?
This is the term for an extreme exaggeration.
What is a hyperbole?
This statement describes Stargirl and Dori's friendship.
What is Dori is a true friend and likes Stargirl just as she is?
This is why Leo was "shunned" by his school community.
What is Leo linked himself with an unpopular person?
This person cares deeply about other people and has no problem being unique because they have very little ego.
Who is Stargirl?
This is when narrator is telling their own story.
What is first person point of view?
This is the term for giving human characteristics to non-human things.
What is personification?
This is an example of character vs. character conflict in the story. (Also include how or why this creates tension in the story.)
What is (example) Hillari vs. Stargirl?
Hillari resents Stargirl's unapologetic personality, and she openly tries to sabotage Stargirl, such as when she threatens to kill Cinnamon.
This is the reason Leo gives Stargirl for why she needs to change to act more like everyone else.
What is the fact that "nobody likes her"?
This person is a paleontologist and hosts a sort of “school” outside of school.
Who is Archie?
A conclusion or educated guess that you reach by using evidence, observations, and background knowledge.
What is an inference?
This is the figurative language type used in this quote: "The screams from across the gym were like volleys of arrows piercing our grand delusion."
What is simile?
This is an example of character vs. society conflict in the story. (Also include how or why this creates tension in the story.)
What is (example) Stargirl vs. Mica Area High?
Stargirl is content to be herself, but MAHS students feel threatened by her disregard of the status quo.
This is what Susan believes will win over the affections of the other students toward the end of the novel.
What is winning the oratorical contest?
This person is popular at school and hates Stargirl.
Who is Hillari Kimble?
This is when the narrator is outside the story and knows the thoughts and feelings of multiple characters.
What is third person omniscient point of view?
This is the figurative language type used in this quote: "When I smiled and nodded to her, frost formed on the back of my neck."
Hint: Think VERY CAREFULLY about your definitions here!
What is metaphor?
This is a life lesson or moral that Leo should take away from his relationship with Stargirl.
What is (example) it is unkind and selfish to try to control someone you claim to care about?