Literary Devices
Metaphor or simile:
Run like the wind!!
Simile
This subject has a yearly Groove, similar to a [Subject] Fair.
What is Science?
Mimi’s best friend, who leaves her at the dance.
Who is Stacey?
Mimi.
Where is Berkeley, CA?
Mimi wants to be...
What is an astronaut?
Define the type of literary device:
The tree waved in the wind.
Personification
Mr. Please teaches/has Mimi for these two classes.
What is English and Homeroom?
Mimi’s "neighbor boy", who Mr. Dell once claimed did not exist.
Who is Timothy?
Mimi’s Mom.
Where is Japan?
Mimi is told she has to take this class instead of the one she really wants (TWO PART ANSWER).
What is Home Ec and Shop class?
Define the type of literary device:
Buzz! Bam! Pow!
Onomatopoeia
The Class that Mimi is assigned because she is a girl.
What is home ec?
The first two people who talked to Mimi.
Who are Karen and Kim?
Where did Mama and Papa meet? Extra points for why!
Where is Japan? (During WWII)
Mimi denies her fathers wishes to ask Mr. Dell for this item.
What is a snowblower?
Simile or Metaphor?
All the world is a stage.
Metaphor
Mimi is kicked out of this class.
What is shop?
This person said that he was glad we bombed Hiroshima and "those Japs" in history class. He also takes shop class and is a competitor in the Science Groove.
Who is David?
Stacey.
Where is Georgia?
Mimi and Timothy do this together in secret in Mr. Dell's garage.
What is use tools to work on Mimi's science Groove project?
Define the type of literary device:
Her smile was a mile wide.
Hyperbole
Who is the first person Mimi interacts with in her new state coming from Berkeley? (GO THROUGH THE FIRST FEW PAGES OF THE BOOK)
Who is the woman on the bus?
What is the name of the science teacher?
Who is Mrs. Stanton?
The state of the internment camp that Aunt Sachi had been forced to stay in with her family during World War II.
Where is Arizona?
Papa gives Mimi a dime to take to the dance with her just in case but doesn't give us the reason. She feels around for it when she starts feeling uncomfortable on page 181. What is the reason she's feeling the dime?
What is so she can call on the payphone to be taken home?