This type of figurative language uses the words like or as to compare two things.
What is simile?
100
Alfred accidentally lets it slip that there is _____________________ Epsteins grocery store?
What is money?
100
Mr. Donatelli defines this type of person as "the man coming up, the man who knows there's a good chance he'll never get to the top, the man who's willing to sweat and bleed to get up as high as his legs and his brains and his heart will take him.
What is a contender?
100
This character is Alfred's best friend.
Who is James?
100
This vocab word means "without purpose or direction."
What is aimlessly?
200
This type of figurative language compares two things without using like or as.
What is metaphor?
200
Henry and Jelly Belly watch Willie Streeter fight Junius Becker at _________________________.
What is Madison Square Garden?
200
The author describes the way the peanut bag sounds when Alfred first enters the gym this way.
What is "rackety-rackety-rackety?'
200
Mr. Donatelli stopped the fight between this character and Junius Becker.
Who is Willie Streeter?
200
The Contender vocabulary word means "To jump or leap over."
What is vaulted?
300
The type of figurative language that gives non-human objects human characteristics or qualities.
What is personification?
300
Alfred goes to the gym __________________________.
What is to become someone special?
300
When Alfred goes to the gym to start his training he sees "an enormous black belly rush past, spraying sweat like" this garden tool.
What is a lawn sprinkler?
300
This character has a girlfriend who goes to cook and baker's school.
Who is Jelly Belly?
300
This Contender vocabulary word means "a tall, narrow, low-toned drum beaten with the hands."
What is Conga Drums?
400
A type of figurative language that is a word that imitates or suggests the source of the sound that it describes.
What is onomatopoeia?
400
Two policemen stop Alfred on his first ____________________________.
What is morning run in the park?
400
When visiting his aunt and uncle in Queens, Alfred's uncle constantly asks him if he's "been thinking about" this specific career or future path.
What is the trades?
400
This is the full name of the character whose nickname is Spoon.
Who is Bill Witherspoon?
400
A Contender vocabulary word mean "to utter a shrill, broken sound or cry, as of a hen."
What is cackled?
500
"Middle school's a roller coaster" represents this type of figurative language.
What is metaphor?
500
Alfred stands up to Major in this chapter by telling him "no" when Major wants Alfred to disconnect the wires on the burglar alarm at Epstein's grocery store.
What is chapter 8?
500
The end of the quote by Donatelli in chapter 3 "nothing's ever promised you, nothing's ever ..."
What is promised you?
500
This character works at Mr. Donatelli's gym and was one of two people who brought Alfred home after he was beat up by Major, Sonny and Hollis.