Characters From the Year
This protagonist was the youngest of the group and ran away with his best friend when his best friend killed someone.
Ponyboy
"It's like mourning a moth's cocoon. If Khalid had seen us there crying over that old body of his what would he have done?" (10)
Which word in that passage means an expression of deep sorrow over someone who has died?
mourning
Who told King's parents that he might be gay?
Sherrif Sanders
"It feels like all my bones are breaking. Like someone has a fist around my heart, squeezing tight." (207)
simile
narrative
nair-uh-tiv
This juror was the first and main juror to fight for justice throughout the story of 12 Angry Men.
Juror Eight
Which word means to work together with someone to do something possibly illegal?
consolation, conspirator, comprehension, ferocious, mischievous
conspirator
Where did Sandy want to meet King to run away?
New Orleans, at Mardi Gras
"The anger that's inside me is boiling, spitting out words before I can even think twice." (218)
personification
descriptive
dee-script-iv
This juror(s) got in the way of justice because of their biases.
Jurors Three or Ten
What word means to make lines, depressions, grooves, or wrinkles in?
"She's clutching her backpack straps, and for all the time she wouldn't look at me before, she sure is looking at me now- staring straight at me, eyebrows all furrowed in concentration, like she's studying everything about me." (204)
furrowed
Whose house did King and his parents go to stay at?
Auntie Idris
"If the house I live in is a graveyard, then Auntie Idris's house is a church, full of life and love and praises for above." (220)
metaphor
thorough
thur-o
This character was often called in by the cops if anything bad ever happened in the neighborhood because of his rough past.
Dally
Mischievous means:
sneaky or causing trouble
What does King finally accept about Khalid?
He isn't a dragonfly, he is gone.
"There's a clattering of pots and pans, a clinking of dinner plates." (224)
onomatopoeia
chaos
k-os
This character refused to fight in the rumble after his friend died. He said it would do no good. He even came to visit the protagonist at his house after the rumble.
Randy
What are at least TWO other forms of this word:
restoration
restore, restoring, restorable, restored, restorationist
Where did Sandy tell King to meet him? What was the plan he told King about?
-In front of the school
-His plan to run away (meet at Mardi Gras)
"the way she speaks with so much love on her tongue" (223)
metaphor
pneumonia
nuh-moan-ya