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Characters
Before the Accident
The Facts
Literary Terms
Poetic Elements
100
She has a fondness for apples.
Who is Billie Jo
100
Billie Jo was born this year.
What is 1920
100
The setting of the story.
What is the 1930's in Oklahoma during the dust bowl.
100
The time and place of a story.
What is the setting.
100
The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words.
What is an alliteration.
200
Billie Jo's friend who leaves.
Who is Livie
200
Billie Jo loves to play this.
What is the piano.
200
The reason no crops will grow.
What is drought and the wind blowing up all the crops.
200
A struggle between opposing forces.
What is conflict.
200
The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe.
What is Onomatopoeia.
300
He never gives up hoping for rain and hoping his wheat will grow.
Who is Daddy
300
Billie Jo's music teacher.
Who is Arley Wanderdale.
300
They were born in Canada
Who are the Dionne Quintuplets.
300
The author’s message about life or human nature.
What is theme.
300
A comparison between essentially unlike things without a comparative word such as like or as.
What is metaphor.
400
A rival musician
Who is Mad Dog
400
Daddy and Ma argue about it.
What is rain.
400
Met her at night school. She is a teacher there.
Who is Louise.
400
The special style in which a writer tells a story.
What is voice.
400
The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.
What is rhyme.
500
Billie Jo's baby brother.
Who is Franklin
500
This has been provided to help Daddy with the farm.
What is a government loan.
500
The city where Billie Jo gets off the train.
What is Flagstaff.
500
A true story.
What is non-fiction.
500
The attitude of a writer toward the subject and characters of a work.
What is tone.