Vocabulary
(adv.) with a leg on each side of something, extending across
What is astride?
"My stomach worked itself into a knot."
What is personification?
This character is having an internal conflict with accepting love and kindness.
Who is Ada?
Ada catches a man in a rowboat along the shore; he is most likely this type of person.
What is a spy?
(adj.) having an area of hardened, thickened skin
"To him, planes landing and taking off had become common as trees."
What is a simile?
This person is the pub owner's daughter and helps Ada give water to the soldiers.
Who is Daisy?
Ada has the opportunity to get her foot fixed, but she needs this before proceeding.
What is Mam's approval?
(adj.) distant and cold in manner; unfriendly
What is standoffish?
"I wanted to walk without crutches, and I wanted to go to school, and I wanted to wear shoes on both feet."
What is an anaphora?
This man works in the sables at the Thorton's property.
(First and last name)
Who is Fred Grimes?
Because Miss Susan Smith was not married, she felt that having these would not be right.
What are children?
(noun) a bad-tempered and difficult person, especially an old one
What is a curmudgeon?
"I could sometimes hear the whirr of her sewing machine while I knit upstairs."
What is onomatopoeia?
Who is Jonathan?
This is the name of the book that Miss Susan Smith reads to Ada and Jamie
What is Swiss Family Robinson?
(noun) serious and immediate danger; threat or grave risk
What is peril?
"I halted where we could see the sea, dark and violent and trashing, where the wind whipped Butter's mane against my bad foot, held as it was by the crook of the sidesaddle."
What is imagery and alliteration?
Jamie's cat
Who is Bovril?
Ada believed that Miss Susan Smith was writing home to Mam for this reason.
What is wanting to get rid of Ada and Jamie?