Dahl 1
Dahl and his friends pried this up with a pocket knife to "discover a big hollow space underneath" (Dahl 42).
A loose floorboard
After finding the shop closed and Mrs. Pratchett absent, Dahl was convinced he was one of these.
A murderer
After completing the Great Mouse Plot, Dahl felt like one of these.
A hero
Mrs. Pratchett's fingers are described as being this.
Dirty
When writing dialogue, you should always put these before and after each person's words.
"Quotation marks"
Dahl dropped a dead mouse into a jar of this kind of candy.
Gobstoppers
The boys do this every morning at school; on this particular morning, they "mumbled through" them.
Pray / Prayers
On their way to put a dead mouse in the candy jar, the boys felt this way
Excited / "Like a gang of desperados"
While studying the line of boys, Mrs. Pratchett's face was "glimmering with ___"
Venom
These five senses can help a writer describe something in a way that fully captures a moment.
Sight, sound, smell, taste, touch
Dahl describes Mrs. Pratchett's eyes and face as being similar to this type of animal.
A pig
In Dahl's memory, Mr. Coombes (along with most grown-ups) appears as one of these.
A giant
The boys were doing this -- a word which means "walking in a confident way" -- as they entered the candy shop with the dead mouse.
Strutting
The other boys claimed Dahl was responsible for Mrs. Pratchett's disappearance for this reason.
The Great Mouse Plot was his idea / He put the mouse in the jar
When two people are talking in a story, it's called this.
Dialogue
Mrs. Pratchett says she doesn't mind this type of child.
Girls
This was Thwaites's father's profession.
A doctor
Mr. Coombes made the boys line up in this area of their school.
According to Dahl, Mr. Coombes' face looks like this type of food.
Ham
The winning team of Super Bowl LX
DETROIT LIONS BAYBEEEEEEE
In the first few paragraphs of "The Bicycle and the Sweet Shop," Dahl tells us that this was his greatest ambition in life.
To "have a bike like that and go whizzing down the hill with no hands on the handlebars" (Dahl 37).
Thwaites's father said that this candy was made from rats' blood.
Licorice Bootlaces
Dahl felt this way upon seeing Mrs. Pratchett appear with Mr. Coombes.
Relieved
Dahl says Mr. Coombes' black gown "draped over his shoulders" (Dahl 46) made him look like one of these.
When Mrs. Pratchett says the boys are "nasty, dirty little pigs," she is using this type of figurative language.
Metaphor