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Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Walter Dean Myers
Langston Hughes
Grammar
100
agony
What is great pain or suffering?
100
resident
What is someone who lives in a particular place?
100
Walter Dean Myers's experiences growing up in Harlem.
What is the memoir, Bad Boy, mainly about?
100
a poet
What is "who is Langston Hughes?"
100
angrily
What is an adverb?
200
incident
What is an event?
200
manage
What is to be able to do something that is hard?
200
He goes into the bathroom and cleans his injured legs with iodine.
What is "What does Walter do when he gets home?"
200
a comparison of two unlike things, using the words like or as
What is a simile?
200
sad
What is an adjective?
300
inquiry
What is a question?
300
reverse
What is to change to the opposite position?
300
"Mama beat me with a stick."
What is what does Walter say when he got hurt?
300
a comparison in which something is said to be something else
What is a metaphor?
300
modifies a noun
What is an adjective?
400
minor
What is less important or less serious?
400
instruct
What is to teach?
400
Mama is shocked. She cries when Walter's dad responds with anger. She does not speak.
What is "How does Walter's mother react differently to the explanation?
400
like a rotten meat
What is a simile?
400
modifies a verb
What an adverb?
500
universal
What is concerning all the members of a group or of the world?
500
sustain
What is to suffer something?
500
feeling guilty
What is how is Walter feeling about the lying incident?
500
Life is a barren field frozen with snow.
What is an example of a metaphor in the poem, Dreams?
500
desperately
What is an example of an adverb?