This type of figurative language uses the words like or as to compare two things.
What is simile?
100
In this chapter Alfred accidentally lets it slip that there is money in the cash register at Epsteins grocery store?
What is chapter 1?
100
Mr. Donatelli defines this type of person as "the man coming up, the man who knows there's a good chance he'll never get to the top, the man who's willing to sweat and bleed to get up as high as his legs and his brains and his heart will take him.
What is a contender?
100
This character is Alfred's best friend.
Who is James?
100
This vocab word means "enclosed."
What is encased?
200
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
What is metaphor?
200
In this chapter Alfred, Henry and Jelly Belly watch Willie Streeter fight Junius Becker at Madison Square Garden.
What is chapter 7?
200
The author describes the way the peanut bag sounds when Alfred first enters the gym this way.
What is "rackety-rackety-rackety?'
200
Mr. Donatelli stopped the fight between this character and Junius Becker.
Who is Willie Streeter?
200
The Contender vocabulary word means "restlessly or anxiously."
What is impatiently?
300
The type of figurative language that gives non-human objects human characteristics or qualities.
What is personification?
300
The chapter in which Alfred goes to the gym for the first time to begin his training.
What is chapter 6?
300
When Alfred goes to the gym to start his training he sees "an enormous black belly rush past, spraying sweat like" this garden tool.
What is a lawn sprinkler?
300
This character has a girlfriend who goes to cook and baker's school.
Who is Jelly Belly?
300
This Contender vocabulary word means "that which goes before or prepares."
What is preliminary?
400
A type of figurative language that is a word that imitates or suggests the source of the sound that it describes.
What is onomatopoeia?
400
In this chapter two policemen stop Alfred on his first morning run in the park.
What is chapter 5?
400
When visiting his aunt and uncle in Queens, Alfred's uncle constantly asks him if he's "been thinking about" this specific career or future path.
What is the trades?
400
This is the full name of the character whose nickname is Spoon.
Who is Bill Witherspoon?
400
A Contender vocabulary word mean "calm or unruffled."
What is serene?
500
"Middle school's a roller coaster" represents this type of figurative language.
What is metaphor?
500
Alfred stands up to Major in this chapter by telling him "no" when Major wants Alfred to disconnect the wires on the burglar alarm at Epstein's grocery store.
What is chapter 8?
500
The end of the quote by Donatelli in chapter 3 "nothing's ever promised you, nothing's ever ..."
What is promised you?
500
This character works at Mr. Donatelli's gym and was one of two people who brought Alfred home after he was beat up by Major, Sonny and Hollis.