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Vocabulary
Literary Elements
Character
Plot Events
Miscellaneous
100
menacing, dangerous
What is ominous?
100
The setting of the story "The Treasure of Lemon Brown"
What is Harlem, present time?
100
Greg's favorite sport that he cannot play because of his grades
What is basketball?
100
The reason why Greg walks out of the house and goes to an abandoned building
What is he had an argument with his father and wants to be alone?
100
The team Greg wants to play on
What is the Scorpions?
200
Jump, leap.
What is vault?
200
The protagonist in the story
Who is Greg?
200
This is where Greg's father works
What is post office?
200
When Lemon Brown sees Greg for the first time he threatens to do this.
What is cut him with a razor?
200
Lemon Brown tells Greg that he's going away to this city
What is St. Louis?
300
hesistantly; with uncertainty
What is tentatively?
300
The conflict in the story
What is Greg cannot play basketball because he failed Math?
300
The person who kept Lemon Brown's harmonica and newspaper clippings until he died in war.
Who is his son?
300
The weapon that the thugs have when they come to rob Lemon Brown
Who is pipe?
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
without preparation
What is impromptu?
400
The theme of the story
What is treasures cannot always be measured in dollars?
400
Jesse's relation to Lemon Brown
What is son?
400
The reason why Lemon Brown stopped performing.
What is he lost his family and had no inspiration?
400
partially open
What is ajar?
500
Weathered, roughened
What is gnarled?
500
Type of narration when the author uses pronouns like he, she, they.
What is third person?
500
The nickname Lemon Brown had when he was a musician.
What is Sweet Lemon Brown?
500
This is how the story ends (resolution)
What is Greg goes home thinking of the lecture he'll get from his father, smiling?
500
The reason why Lemon Brown threatened Greg when they first met
What is he thought Greg came for his treasure?