Vocabulary
We walked out of the warm and cosy kitchen into the hallway of the big house, where it was chilly and DRAFTY and dark.
Drafty means...
cold and uncomfortable
The story is told with a lot of _________ (when characters speak to one another).
Dialogue
True or False: The characters in the story do not have names.
True
Who does the house in the story belong to?
The little boy and his sister
He was unimpressed by his sister's boyfriend's IGNORANCE.
Ignorance means...
lack of knowledge or information
What point of view is this story told in?
a. First
b. Second
c. Third
a. First
The narrator of the story is...
The older boy
Which statement best describes the theme of the story?
a. Things are not always what they seem
b. Do not leave children with strangers
c. Beware of large, old homes
d. Always tell young children bedtime stories
a. Things are not always what they seem
I reached over and TOUSLED his hair.
Tousled means...
make messy or untidy
"Click Clack the Rattlebag" is an example of what kind of figurative language?
a. Personification
b. Onomatopoeia
c. Hyperbole
d. Metaphor
b. Onomatopoeia
The older boy is dating the younger boy's sister.
Where do the click-clacks come from?
The dark/the shadows
But all kids can be INSUFFERABLE sometimes, when they think they know something you don’t.
Insufferable means...
conceited, full of yourself
What kind of figurative language is this?
"The moon was almost full, and blue-white moonlight shone in through the high windows on the staircase, down into the hall."
a. Simile
b. Metaphor
c. Alliteration
d. Imagery
d. Imagery
What does the younger boy want from the older boy?
A bedtime story.
OR to drink his blood.
What do click-clacks look like?
What you aren't expecting/what you aren't paying attention to
He was a PRECOCIOUS child.
Precocious means...
wise or mature; when a child is a bit of a "know it all"
Name the main example of FORESHADOWING in the story (a hint early on in the story that the boy was the monster).
He was standing in the shadows, kept speaking from the shadows (the monster is made of shadows).
Why is the monster called a "Click Clack"?
Because that's the sound the bones make when they're swinging back and forth in the rattlebag.
Which piece of evidence best supports the idea that the narrator was possibly near or around a Click-Clack?
a. "We were climbing wooden steps now."
b. "He pushed open the door to the attic room."
c. "There was that precocious amusement again."
d. "I heard things rattle gently, like dry bones in thin bags."
d. "I heard things rattle gently, like dry bones in thin bags."