Figurative Language
Compares two objects using like or as
Simile
The main character in a story
Protagonist
Why is Winnie not allowed to leave the front yard at the beginning of the story?
Her family is very protective
Who overheard the Tucks' story as they told it to Winnie?
The man in the yellow suit.
What does the man in the yellow suit plan to do with the spring water?
Sell it to only "special" (rich, educated, "deserving") people
Compares two objects without using like or as
Metaphor
The character that causes the most conflict for the protagonist (the villian)
Antagonist
Why has nobody discovered the spring of immortality?
The cows paved the road that goes around the wood, and the Tucks put pebbles over the spring.
He doesn't like it, it doesn't feel like "living."
What does Mae do to the man in the yellow suit? Why? Who sees it happen?
She hits him with the stock of the gun in the head, it eventually kills him. She did it because he was going to take Winnie and sell the water. The constable sees it happen.
A phrase used in great exaggeration, not meant to be literal
Hyperbole
The way/style in which a story is told (1st person, 2nd person, 3rd person)
Points of view
Why is Winnie kidnapped? What helps her calm down?
She sees Jesse drinking from the spring, and said she would tell her father about it. Mae's music box.
His grandmother told him stories of this family that never aged.
Who visits Treegap in the epilogue? What year is it?
Just Mae and Tuck. 1950.
Giving human-like characteristics to non-human objects
Personification
When and where a story takes place
Setting
How did the Tucks friends and family react when the Tucks realized they were not aging?
Miles' wife left with their kids, and thought that he had sold his soul to the devil.
Who went with the man in the yellow suit to the Tucks' to get Winnie?
The constable
Who gives Winnie water from the spring? When is she supposed to drink it? What does she do with it?
Jesse gives her the water. When she is 17. She dumps it on the toad outside of her house.
The repeating of the same consonant at the beginning of multiple words
alliteration
Winnie; The Man in the Yellow Suit; 3rd Person
The pond represents _____________ because ___________________
The rowboat represents ___________ because __________________.
The Pond=a wheel (or life) because it keeps going on and on, and starts over again.
The rowboat = the Tucks, because they just go over the water. They are not a part of the wheel/life.
He uses his information about Winnie to get the Fosters to trade him the wood.
Describe the plan for Mae's escape
Miles takes the window frame out from the jail cell, and they pull Mae out. Then Winnie take Mae's place for the night, so the constable doesn't notice.