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Peaches Please
Who's Who
The General's Army
Power Words
Purely Academic
100
The setting of "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh"
What is 'a peach orchard in the middle of the night'?
100
The main character in "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh"
Who is 'Joby?'
100
This is the body part general uses as a metaphor to tell the drummer boy what he means to the army
What is 'heart'?
100
to one side
What is 'askew'?
100
This type of character changes during the story
What is 'dynamic character'?
200
The name of the war during which the "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh" takes place
What is 'The Civil War'?
200
The drummer boy's age
What is '14'?
200
This is why the drum beats are important to the army.
What is 'the beat keeps the soldiers together as a unit'?
200
muffled, quiet
What is 'muted'?
200
A noun that names an 'idea': A. drum B. bravery C. fight D. Joby
What is 'bravery'?
300
The name of the creek near where the story takes place
What is 'Owl Creek'?
300
Why the drummer boy thinks he is in greater danger than other soldiers
What is 'no weapons'?
300
This is why the general stopped to talk with Joby
What is 'Joby was crying'?
300
DAILY DOUBLE deeply serious
What is 'solemn'?
300
Person vs. Person, Person vs. World, and Person vs. Nature are examples of this type of conflict
What is 'external'?
400
The month the story takes place
What is 'April'?
400
This person stops to talk to the drummer boy
Who is 'the General'?
400
This is the reason the general says it is good for a soldier to cry before the fight
What is 'there won't be time to cry once the battle begins'?
400
determined
What is 'resolute'?
400
How a story's conflict is resolved
What is 'resolution'?
500
What the Battle of Shiloh is named after
What is 'a church'?
500
The general said he cried because of this
What is 'the war will last a long time'?
500
Name one element that makes up the soldiers' "shield"
What is 'family/devotion, patriotism, trust in their weapons'?
500
scattered around
What is 'strewn?'
500
Struggle within the the mind of a character is this type of conflict
What is 'internal conflict'?