What is a figure of speech that uses "like" or "as" to compare two dissimilar things called?
Simile
Ransom
payment demanded for release of a person or property
The author TELLS the personality traits
Isabel calls her grandfather ________?
Lito
At the end of Josef story where was the setting?
In a schoolhouse.
Which kind of figurative language is used in the following sentence? You are a devil?
Metaphor
Suede
Leather with a soft fuzzy surface
Indirect Characterization
The author SHOWS things that reveal the personality traits.
How did Mahmoud and his family get to Austria?
They march on the highways
Lito appeared in another characters story. Who was the other story that Lito appeared in?
Josef story
Which kind of figurative language is used in the following sentence? It's raining cats and dogs!
Idiom
Rapacious
Living by preying on other animals
What is THEME
The theme if a story is the moral, message or lesson of a story.
Where did Mahmoud's family sleep while waiting for the ships?
Yogurt shop
What did Isabel give in exchange for gas for the boat?
Trumpet
Which kind of figurative language is used in the following sentence? Ring, Ring, went my alarm clock.
Onomatopoeia
Audacity
Boldness
What is MAIN IDEA
The main idea of a story tells what it is mostly about.
The novel is narrated from the point of view of
A third person narrator
No he remained in Cuba
Which kind of figurative language is used in the following sentence? The girl could smell the fresh lavender as she glided through the beautiful garden of delicate flowers.
Imagery
Catatonic
Appearing to be in a daze unresponsive
What are the four types of sentences?
Interrogative sentence, exclamatory sentence, imperative sentence, declarative sentence.
Isabel's memory of her grandmother's death mainly provides the reader what?
More information about Isabel's family and their struggle in Cuba.
Who did Josef mother pick when she could only buy one child's freedom?
She did not. Josef stepped up and gave his sister her freedom.