Mae was described as a "great potato of a woman". What type of figurative language device is this?
Metaphor
Mae swung the shotgun "like a wheel", when she killed the man in the yellow suit. What type of figurative language is this?
simile
Fill in the blanks of this line of dialogue from Mae:
"Life's got to be ..., no matter how ... or ..."
Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short.
If Winnie had drank the spring water when she turned 17, how old would she be today?
154
What did Mae have that gave the man in the yellow suit his biggest clue to finding the Tuck family?
A music box
How long ago, or how many years ago, did the Tuck family drink the water?
2024-1776
(Jesse met Winnie when he was 104, she was 10 and had been born in 1870)
248 years ago
If Jesse was alive today, how old would he be?
144+104=248 years old
(2024-1880=144)