Characters
The state where Billie Jo and her family live.
What is Oklahoma?
The aunt that invites Billie Jo to live with her in Lubbock, Texas.
Who is Aunt Ellis?
"She's an old mule on the subject of my schooling" (p.10)
What is a metaphor?
The President during the setting of the novel.
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Billie Jo's baby brother
Who is Franklin?
How Billie Jo's Ma died.
What is giving birth to Franklin?
"I glare at Ma's back with a scowl as foul as maggoty stew" (p.29)
What is a simile?
Place where many farmers relocated to during the Dust Bowl.
What is California?
Billie Jo's music teacher
Who is Arley Wanderdale?
The disease that causes the spots on Pa's hands and neck.
What is skin cancer?
"Lightning danced down on its spindly legs" (p.31).
What is personification?
Woman who acts as Billie Jo's 'Ma' at the Christmas dinner, and allows a migrant family to live in her school house for a while.
Who is Miss Freeland?
"That quarter inch of rain did wonders for Ma, too,
who is ripe as a melon these days" (p.55).
What is a simile?
Historical economic event that was happening during the time period of the novel.
What was the Great Depression?
Billie Jo is glad that Louise does not make this for Thanksgiving.
What is cranberry sausce?
How Ma got her piano.
What is a wedding present from Pa?
"She was bare as a pear" (p.55) (There is one type of figurative language and one literary device- you need to identify both of them)
What are rhyme and simile?
Illegal substance that people were arrested for making during prohibition.
What is moonshine/alcohol?