Figures of Speech
The Alabama heat was like a heavy blanket.
What is a simile?
Playing with matches got Byron in big trouble with Momma. The italicized part is the verbal.
What is a gerund phrase?
You would use this mark to create the name of the "World-Famous Watson Pet Hospital."
What is a hyphen?
At the start of the book, Byron is a bully; by the end, he is a protector. This makes him this type of character.
What is dynamic?
If you are studying Anthropology, you are studying this, which is the meaning of the root anthro.
What is humankind or humanity?
The "Brown Bomber" struggled to climb a hill.
What is personification?
Byron wanted to scare Kenny with stories about the Wool Pooh. The italicized part is this verbal.
What is an infinitive phrase?
"Kenny looked into the water and saw... the Wool Pooh." These three dots show Kenny’s hesitation.
What are Ellipses?
Buphead stays a "hood" and a bad influence from the beginning to the end of the story, making him this.
This root means "to walk" or "to move."
What is amble?
Kenny says, "It was a zillion degrees below zero" when describing the Flint winter.
What is hyperbole?
Terrified by the bombing, Kenny hid behind the sofa. Here, "terrified" acts as an adjective describing Kenny.
What is a Participle (or Participial Phrase)?
"Byron was a juvenile delinquent—or so everyone thought—until the family went to Birmingham." This mark adds a dramatic break.
What is a dash?
Both Kenny Watson and Ponyboy Curtis serve this role in their respective books.
What is the narrator (or protagonist)?
The roots duc or dus, found in words like conduct or produce, mean to do this.
What is "to lead"?
After Byron got his hair treatment, his siblings thought his new look was to dye for.
What is a pun?
The Brown Bomber, a 1948 Plymouth, was Dad’s pride and joy.
What is an appositive phrase?
Internal citations need to be put inside these.
What are parenthesis?
This "symbol" in the Watsons represents the trauma of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.
What is the Wool Pooh?
This prefix means "within" or "inside."
What is "intra"?
Byron uses this type of language when he asks Kenny to "give him some skin" or tells him to "chill out."
What is idiom (or idiomatic expression)?
During every stop, Momma makes sure everyone has enough to eat.
What is a prepositional phrase?
This mark is used specifically to join two words like "mother-in-law" or "ice-cold."
What is a hyphen?
Momma, who hates the cold, lives in Flint, Michigan.
What is situational irony?
In the scientific world, this suffix denotes a specific instrument or device used for a task.
What is "tron"?