Pennypacker's Writing Style
A comparison between two things using like or as.
What is a simile?
How old is Peter?
What is 12 years old?
Peter's favorite sport.
What is baseball?
Vola's previous job during the war?
What is a medic?
A comparison that is direct and does not use "like" or "as".
What is a metaphor?
The number of siblings Vixen had.
What is 2 siblings? (Runt and her sister who died)
Peter's mother died how?
In a car crash.
Vola's jarred yummy fruit.
Peaches
Pax's toy Peter threw in the beginning and the end?
What is a toy soldier?
The interjected scene or memory that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the story
What is a flashback?
The number of chapters in Pax.
What is 34?
The name of the story Vola got from the soldier and builds puppets for?
The Seven Voyages of Sinbad.
Runt brought Pax this to eat.
What is an egg?
Pax's name means what?
What is peace?
Pennypacker switches what between each chapter?
What is viewpoint or perspective?
The number of conditions Vola put on Peter before he could leave.
What is 3?
Peter was sent to live with who after his father went to war?
Pax's first food he caught on his own.
What is a mouse?
Vola had said that the war was fighting over this resource?
What is water?
On our chalk talk most students said Pennypacker's writing was very ..
What is detailed/descriptive or emotional?
The number miles for Peter to hike to get back to the spot he left Pax.
200 miles
Peter tells Pax that he will always do what at the end of the book?
He will always leave the porch door open.
The food Vola remembered she liked when she was lying on the grocery store floor.
What is peanut butter or peanut butter sandwiches?
What did Peter steal from Vola when he first met her?
A knife.