“It was one of those super-duper-cold Saturdays. One of those days that when you
breathed out your breath kind of hung frozen in the air like a hunk of smoke and you
could walk along and look exactly like a train blowing out big, fat white puffs of smoke.”
Which literary device is present in the excerpt above?
What is a simile?
100
What are the settings of The Watsons Go to Birmingham? (Hint: There are 3)
What is Flint, Michigan, Interstate 75, and Birmingham, Alabama
100
A synonym for narrator might be
What is a storyteller?
100
When Byron thinks that he is going to have to sign a welfare list for groceries, he is
What is embarrassed/ashamed?
100
What is a synonym for kill?
What is slew?
200
“If you asked Momma why you had to do something and she didn’t feel like explaining
she just repeated herself. She was chopping up onions for spaghetti sauce and I guess the
tears made it so she didn’t feel like talking. If you were stupid enough to ask your
question again there would be the loudest quiet in the world coming from Momma.”.
“Loudest quiet” is an example of
What is an oxymoron?
200
Is Byron's character static or dynamic?
What is dynamic?
200
“Her voice was starting to get all choky.”
Which of the five senses does the description appeal to?
What is hearing?
200
Which of the following is NOT true about Byron?
-He is always getting into trouble
-He is in fourth grade
-His best friend is Buphead
-He is a bully
What is he is in fourth grade?
200
exclusive: seclude:: reveal: __________________
What is unveil?
300
“When Byron’s fourth Swedish Crème left his hand I knew that if the bird didn’t move he was going to get whacked. The cookie popped the bird smack-jab in the chest! The
bird’s wings both stuck out to the side and for a hot second with its tail hanging down and its wings sticking out like that it looked like a perfect small letter t stuck up on the telephone wire.”
In the first and second lines of this excerpt, the writer uses this type of figurative language:
What is personification?
300
Several times throughout this phrase is repeated, making it a motif.
What is "Ready, Aim, Fire" and/or "Awwww, man!"
300
From whose point-of-view is the novel written?
Who is Kenny Watson's?
300
Why do the kids at school tease Kenny?
What is his lazy eye?
300
terminate: end :: _____________: start
What is generate?
400
“He was surprised we were there ‘cause as soon as he saw us he turned around and
tried to walk right back out. Both me and mama smelled a rat.”
What type of figurative language is used in this passage?
What is an idiom?
400
The bombing of the church would be which part of the plot diagram?
What is the climax?
400
Name one event that is part of the Rising Action.
What is the drive to Birmingham, Byron getting the conk, Byron killing the dove, etc.
400
The fact that Kenny struggles with his fears and perception of himself after seeing the church in Birmingham bombed is an example of what type of conflict?
What is internal conflict?
400
Which vocabulary word would be the effect of trying to find out where your Christmas gifts are hidden?
What is eavesdropping?
500
Personal Saver and Wool Pooh are examples of what type of figurative language?
What are puns?
500
List 2 themes of this novel.
What is racism, prejudice, friendship, family relationships, growing up
500
What narration mode is the story written?
What is first-person point of view?
500
At the Ohio rest stop, what were the Watson children surprised to find?