Literary Terms
Characters
Chapters 1-4
Chapters 5-8
Chapters 9-12
100
This is the position from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
100
This is the protagonist in the story.
What is Tex?
100
This is the time of year at the start of the novel.
What is fall/autumn?
100
What is Mace's reaction to Lem admitting that he is dealing drugs?
He is angry and upset.
100
This happens to Tex during the drug deal with Lem.
What is he gets shot?
200
This is where a story takes place.
What is setting?
200
This is the name of Tex's horse.
What is Negrito?
200
This is Tex's best friend.
What is Johnny?
200
Pop makes this promise to Tex.
What is he will get Negrito back?
200
Lem says this is what Mace really wants out of life.
What is to be respectable?
300
This is the point of greatest dramatic tension or excitement in a story.
What is the climax?
300
This character is a love interest and the only girl among five children.
What is Jamie?
300
This is how Tex's mother died.
What is pneumonia?
300
This is the prank that Johnny and Tex pulled on the typing teacher.
What is they stuck glue caps to the typewriter keys so they would go off at the same time and disrupt the entire school.
300
Pop reveals this information to Tex when he (Tex) is in the hospital.
What is who his biological father is?
400
This is the use of hints or clues in a story to suggest what action is to come.
What is foreshadowing?
400
This character does not want his children hanging around with Tex and Mason.
What is Cole Collins?
400
Why did Lem leave town?
What is he got Connie pregnant, they got married, they moved out of town, he has a job in a gas station and is also selling drugs.
400
This was Tex's reaction to seeing Pop for the first time in a few months.
What is he was happy?
400
This is the final decision that Mace makes in the last chapter of the novel.
What is he will go to college?
500
This is a comparison using the words "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
500
This character symbolizes the criminal life.
What is The Hitchhiker?
500
What do the hospital tests reveal about Mace's health?
What is he has an ulcer?
500
This happens to Tex when he is at the mall.
What is he gets accused of shoplifting?
500

These are the names of Mrs. Ledbetter's dogs. Yes, I know this question has nothing to do with the novel.

What is Daniel, Stonewall, and Ladybird.

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