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The Watsons Go to Birmingham Vocabulary
The Watsons Go to Birmingham Vocabulary
The Watsons Go to Birmingham Questions
Figurative Language
Parts of Speech
100
A child that is always breaking the law.
What is Juvenile delinquent?
100
What is a snow storm that takes place in MI with ice and snow.
What is a blizzard?
100
Kenny would look at a person sideways.
What is Kenny's lazy or cockeye?
100

 “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

100

A person, place, thing, or idea

What is a noun?

200
When you don't like someone because of their race or color.
What is racist?
200
The action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart
What is Segregation?
200

The reason the Watsons decide to go to Grandma Sand's house.

What is so they can get warm?

200

An example of a______is as follows: "Momma's voice got strange, hissing like a snake".

What is a simile?

200

a word used to describe a noun

What is an adjective?

300
To stop buying from a company or business as a protest.
What is a boycott?
300

To have an lazy eye.

What is cockeyed?

300

Byron's best friend in MI.

What is Buphead?

300

"it was about a zillion degrees below zero" is an example of this type of figurative language. 

What is hyperbole?

300

And, but, or, for, nor, yet, so are all called this.

What are types of conjunctions?

400

Segregation was fought by this movement in the 1960's.

What is The Civil Rights Movement?

400

Byron's lips stuck to the Brown Bomber because of this

What is He was kissing it?

400

This shows _________in the following passage: "Michigan, a state she called a giant icebox." 

What is a metaphor?

400

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?

400

a word that can be used to describe a verb, adjective, or adverb. 

What is an adverb?

500
When you let others know that you believe in something even though you may get into trouble. You take a...
What is a stand?
500

Momma covered her hand when she laughed because she was embarrassed by this.

What is she had a gap between her teeth?

500

Rufus and Cody were this character's true friends early in the novel. 

What is Kenny? 

500

"He-yah" and "Wonnnerful" are purposeful misspellings of words in dialogue. This is called this when the writer is trying to show a regional accent or way of speaking.

What is dialect?

500

"I like her too" shows two examples of this part of speech, also known as a substitute for a proper noun.

What is a pronoun?