The Watsons Go to Birmingham Vocabulary
“The lights knocked some of the darkness out of the way and we felt safe again.” (pg. 97) Is what type of figurative language.
What is personification
A person, place, thing, or idea
What is a noun?
The reason the Watsons decide to go to Grandma Sand's house.
What is so they can get warm?
An example of a______is as follows: "Momma's voice got strange, hissing like a snake".
What is a simile?
a word used to describe a noun
What is an adjective?
To have an lazy eye.
What is cockeyed?
Byron's best friend in MI.
What is Buphead?
"it was about a zillion degrees below zero" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is hyperbole?
And, but, or, for, nor, yet, so are all called this.
What are types of conjunctions?
Segregation was fought by this movement in the 1960's.
What is The Civil Rights Movement?
Byron's lips stuck to the Brown Bomber because of this
What is He was kissing it?
This shows _________in the following passage: "Michigan, a state she called a giant icebox."
What is a metaphor?
I put my hand outside of the car window and felt the air cool as silk is a simile and appeals to the senses. This type of writing that creates a mental image for the reader is called this.
What is imagery?
a word that can be used to describe a verb, adjective, or adverb.
What is an adverb?
Momma covered her hand when she laughed because she was embarrassed by this.
What is she had a gap between her teeth?
Rufus and Cody were this character's true friends early in the novel.
What is Kenny?
"He-yah" and "Wonnnerful" are purposeful misspellings of words in dialogue. This is called this when the writer is trying to show a regional accent or way of speaking.
What is dialect?
"I like her too" shows two examples of this part of speech, also known as a substitute for a proper noun.
What is a pronoun?