Characters
The protagonist of the novel.
Who is Lily?
What are paper fans?
A comparison using like or as
What is a simile?
The item that was left by her mother that tells Lily she was loved.
What is a photograph/picture of her and her mother?
The name used to describe quotes at the beginning of each chapter in the novel.
What is an epigraph?
The antagonist of the novel.
Who is T-Ray?
The place Lily would go to connect with her mother.
What is the peach orchard?
Giving human characteristics to non-human things.
What is personification?
The person who gently guides Lily into forgiveness of her mother and herself.
Who is August?
“…and glided past T.Ray’s room in silence, sliding my arms and legs like a skater on ice” (22).
What is a simile?
Who is Deborah (her mother)?
Lily's punishment.
What is kneeling on grits?
A statement that is an over-exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
The event that broke the negative relationship between June and Lily.
“Rosaleen climbed in, sliding over on the seat. I moved after her, sliding as she slid, sitting as she sat” ( 33).
What is alliteration?
Two characters were arrested during the novel.
Who are Rosaleen and Zach?
How Lily finds the pink house.
What is, she sees the Black Madonna honey in the store window?
A comparison of two unlike things, but without the word like or as.
What is a metaphor?
The thing that causes T-Ray to confuse Lily with his wife Deborah.
What is a whale pin?/What is Lily looks like Deborah? (He gave it to Deborah on her 22nd birthday.)
“Making that propeller sound, a high- pitched zzzzz that hummed along my skin.” (Ch1 Pg 1).
What is onomatopoeia?
What is Boatwright?
Who is June?
A reference to some event, person, or thing that helps to establish the setting.
What is an allusion?
The reason that Zach goes to jail in the novel.
What is he refuses to snitch on his friend (name who threw the bottle)?
"I gazed out at the peach trees stretching halfway to North Carolina, the way they raised up their leafy arms in gestures of pure beseeching."
What is personification?