Characters
Who Said This?
Figurative Language
Figurative Language/Literary Device
Miscellaneous
100
I like to look out my window and watch all the people in the neighborhood.
Who is Ana?
100
"The older you are, the younger you get when you move to the United States."
Who is Gonzalo?
100
"The next moment, she disappeared like a rabbit."
What is a simile?
100
"They're all trained to be as slippery as snakes."
What is a simile?
100
Cleveland, Ohio
What is the setting (where the story takes place)?
200
I am Vietnamese and started the Gibb Street Garden. I never met my father and hope to build a connection by planting lima beans.
Who is Kim?
200
"I would show him that I could raise plants, as he had. I would show him that I was his daughter."
Who is Kim?
200
"An icy wind teetered trash cans and turned my cheeks to marble." (there are two literary devices used here)
What is alliteration?
What is personification?
200
Leona's grandmother lived to the age of 99, outliving all of her doctors who warned her that drinking goldenrod tea would "raise her blood pressure and burst her heart." Advice that she completely ignored.
What is irony?
200
The way Leona gets the people at the Public Health Department to pay attention to her.
What is she brings a bag of stinky garbage from the vacant lot to the Public Health Department?
300
I live on the ground floor of the apartment building. I look out for Ana a little, but I don't like being bossed around by her. I get that enough at my job as a school janitor during the week. I will not put up with that after work.
Who is Wendell?
300
"Gibb Street became the lines between the blacks and whites, like a border between two countries."
Who is Ana?
300
"The smell's enough to curl up a crocodile's nose, especially in summer."
What is a hyperbole?
300
"She could recite the names by heart, like a chapter out of Genesis."
What is an allusion?
300
"Don't believe what people say -- cartoons make you smart."
Who is Gonzalo?
400
The only person I can communicate with in the United States is my niece. No one speaks the Indian language that I speak, not even my niece's son. He treated me like a baby until he saw me work with the soil and seeds in the garden. I became a man in his eyes again.
Who is Tio Juan?
400
"She kept a scrapbook with the obituaries of all the doctors she outlived and could recite the list of names by heart, like a chapter out of Genesis."
Who is Leona?
400
"I put Miles on the CD player and stretched out on the bed. Might was well be comfortable while you're on hold."
What is an allusion?
400
"He poured them [the seeds] into his hand and smiled. He seemed to recognize them, like old friends."
What is a simile?
400
This is where the garden starts.
What is the vacant lot?
500
I want to plant goldenrod in honor of my grandmother. But I can't plant anything in that vacant lot until I get all that garbage removed. There is so much garbage to remove. It's not a job for a wheelbarrow; it's a job for City Hall!
Who is Leona?
500
"Can't bring the dead back to life on this earth. Can't make the world loving and kind. Can't change myself into a millionaire. But a patch of ground in this trashy lot -- I can change that. Can change it big."
Who is Wendell?
500
"Tio Juan was the oldest man in his pueblo. But here he became a little baby."
What is a metaphor?
500
"The truth of it [that Ana had dug up Kim's beans] slapped me full in the face."
What is personification?
500
I am the author of Seedfolks.
Who is Paul Fleischman?
