The Watsons Go to Birmingham Vocabulary
A child who is always breaking the law. Byron was frequently called this.
What is juvenile delinquent?
A type of large snowstorm that takes place in Michigan with ice and snow. After one of these, the garbage trucks would be very busy picking up dead bodies off the streets.
What is a blizzard?
Kenny would look at a person sideways because of this.
What is Kenny's lazy eye?
“The lights knocked some of the darkness out of the way and we felt safe again” (pg. 97) is what type of figurative language?
What is personification?
Kenny, Byron, Buphead, Michigan, Birmingham, Appalachian Mountains -- all of these are an example of what part of speech?
What is a noun/proper noun?
On the day he met Rufus, Kenny remarked that Rufus was "jabbering" through class. What does "jabbering" mean?
What is talking excessively.
The action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart
What is segregation?
The reason the Watsons decide to go to Aunt Cydney's house
What is so they can get warm?
"Momma's voice got strange, hissing like a snake" is an example of what type of figurative language?
What is a simile?
"I'm sure such a fine, intelligent-looking family as this one ..." (page 111). "Fine" and "intelligent-looking" are examples of what part of speech?
What is an adjective?
Type of tree Byron and Kenny were next to while eating Swedish Creams
What is a green apple tree
To have a lazy eye. This word is part of one of Kenny's nicknames.
What is cockeyed?
Byron's best friend in Michigan
Who is Buphead?
"It was about a zillion degrees below zero" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is hyperbole?
Used frequently in the novel and in any writing, and, but, or, for, nor, yet, so are all called this.
What are conjunctions?
This movement fought segregation in the 1960s.
What is The Civil Rights Movement?
Byron's lips stuck to the Brown Bomber because of this
What is he was kissing the side mirror?
"Michigan, a state she called a giant icebox" contains what kind of figurative language?
What is a metaphor? or What is hyperbole?
I put my hand outside of the car window and felt the air cool as silk is a simile and appeals to the senses. This type of writing that creates a mental image for the reader is called this.
What is imagery?
"Except for bald-headed By, we were all laughing and wondering what Dad's surprise was" (page 107). In this excerpt, what is the adjective and what type of figurative language does it create?
What are "bald-headed" and alliteration?
The type of job did Bobo Brazil had?
(hint: athlete)
What is a wrestler?
Momma covered her hand when she laughed because she was embarrassed by this.
What is she had a gap between her front teeth?
The name of the school the Watson kids went to?
What is Clark Elementary?
"He-yah" and "Wonnnerful" are purposeful misspellings of words in dialogue. What is it called when the writer is trying to show a regional accent or way of speaking?
What is dialect?
"I like her too" shows two examples of this part of speech, also known as a substitute for a noun.
What is a pronoun?