Vocabulary
Figurative Language
It happened in the story
Literary Elements
Potpourri
100

To leave slightly open (for example, a door)

Ajar

100

His father's words were like the distant thunder

Simile

100
Greg's favorite sport that he cannot play because of his grades
What is basketball?
100

The two main characters in "The Treasure of Lemon Brown".

Greg and Lemon Brown

100
The team Greg wants to play on
What is the Scorpions?
200

To describe something that was done without being planned

impromptu

200

Greg, except for an involuntary tremor in his knees, stood stock still.

Alliteration

200

Lemon Brown used to play this?

A harmonica

200


Greg is upset with his father so he leaves home and winds up in an abandoned tenement. There he meets a homeless man named Lemon Brown, who shares his treasure.

The plot of "The Treasure of Lemon Brown"

200

What Lemon Brown called the three young men who tried to take his treasure

Scalawags 

300

hesitantly; with uncertainty

What is tentatively?

300

The razor was sharp enough to cut a week into nine days

hyperbole
300

The conflict that Greg and Lemon Brown share

What is facing a group of scalawags?

300

The harmonica = Lemon Brown

A symbol

300
Lemon Brown knows his son loved him because of this.
What is the fact that Jesse saved his father's old harmonica and newspaper clippings of his hit performances (his treasure) while he was in the war?
400

a building where multiple people live

tenement 

400

A car passed, its tires hissing over the wet streets

Onomatopoeia and metaphor 

400
How Jesse died, according to Lemon Brown
What is he was killed in the war?
400

I used to call them moon eyes.

Metaphor

400

The author of "The Treasure of Lemon Brown".

Walter Dean Myers

500

What part of speech is tentatively?

Adverb

500

"You don't give up the Blues; they give up you."

Personification

500

Where Lemon Brown's son went to live when his mother died

With his aunt

500

One of the themes of the story.

You should never judge a book by its cover.

You should value your family.

Treasures are not always monetary (or money)

500

Name a conflict in the story

Man vs Man

-Greg vs. his father

-The young men or "scalawags" vs. Lemon Brown and Greg

Man vs. Himself 

Greg vs. his fears (when he hears the young men in the abandoned building)

Greg vs. his failures in school