Full Cicada Moon
Born a Crime
Grammar
Figurative Language
Parts of Speech
100

What is the main character's name?

Mimi

100

What country does Born a Crime take place in?

South Africa

100

What punctuation should this sentence have?

That was so fun

.

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!

!

100

Is this a metaphor or simile?

Run like the wind!

Simile

100

What's the noun?

I'll swim in the lake.

Lake

200

What does Mimi protest?

That girls can't take shop.

200

Why is the book titled, "Born a Crime?"

Trevor was born to a white parent and a black parent when that was illegal.

200

What's wrong with this sentence?


I met harold at the diner.

Harold needs to be capitalized.

200

Is this a metaphor or simile?


He was as tall as a building.

Simile

200

What's the verb(s)?

I'm heading to the store to pick up some groceries.

Heading, pick (up)

300

DOUBLE POINTS!

What does the Japanese word, "Hatsuyume" mean?

The first dream of the new year.

300

What is the name for the laws that segregated black people from white people in South Africa?

Apartheid

300

What's wrong with this sentence?

Me and Ron are hanging out at the mall.

It should be Ron and I.

300

What type of figurative language is that?


The tree waved in the wind.

Personification.

300

What are the adjective(s)?

The sun was dazzling in the bright blue sky?

Dazzling, bright, blue

400

What is Mimi's dream?

To fly or be an astronaut

400

What TV show was Trevor Noah on?

The Daily Show

400

What's wrong with the sentence?

I went to the movie theater and saw an horror movie.

An should be a.

400

What type of figurative language is this?


My head weighs five billion pounds!

Hyperbole

400

Which is an adverb?

He walked slowly to class.

Slowly

500

Who is the author of Full Cicada Moon?

Marilyn Hilton

500

What Video Game did Trevor Noah say he was really good at?

Street Fighter

500

What's wrong with this sentence?

My favorite parts about Dave & Buster's are the games and the food and the prizes and I hope I get to go there again soon.

It's a run-on sentence.

500

What example of figurative language is this?

Wham! The snowball smacked him right in the head.

Onomatopoeia 

500

Choose the noun(s)

I dropped my backpack on the landing.

Dropped