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The gender of children that Mrs. Pratchett did not have trouble with
What are girls?
The reason Dahl's mother chose a boarding school close to their home in Whales
What is Dahl had never spent a night away from home before?
Word meaning "having a level of awareness"
What is consciousness?
Type of sentence that contains a complete idea with a subject and predicate (ex: "My teacher is awesome.")
What is a simple sentence?
Characters speaking to each other (typically structured within quotation marks)
What is dialogue?
The item that Licorice Bootlace was made out of
What is rat's blood?
What Twhaites whispered to Dahl after seeing Mrs. Pratchett's shop closed
What is "I'm afraid you've killed her."?
Word meaning "rude" or "rough" (could be used to describe the Matron or Mrs. Pratchett)
What is gruff?
Type of sentence that contains two ideas connected by a conjunction (ex: "My teacher is awesome and she has two cats.")
What is a compound sentence?
Type of characterization where an author tells readers what a character is like (ex: "Snoopy is mischievous and loving")
What is direct characterization?
The reason the boys did not want to use the fancy lavatory in the boarding school
What is everyone would know you are having emergency diarrhea?
The importance of the tuck-boxes
What is to keep belongings sent to the boys from their families safe and treasured?
Word meaning "extremely hungry" (could be used to describe the boys at the boarding school)
What is famished?
Type of sentence that contains an independent clause, a dependent clause, and a subordinating conjunction (ex: "I like school because my teacher is awesome.")
What is a complex sentence?
Type of characterization where readers use context clues and inferences to learn what a character is like (showing not telling)
What is indirect characterization?
The 4 elements of the RACE writing strategy
What are restate the question, answer the question, cite evidence, explain and analyze the evidence?
5 emotions Dahl experienced throughout "The Great Mouse Plot", "The Bicycle and the Sweet Shop", "Mr. Coombes", and "Mrs. Pratchett's Revenge"
What are nervousness, pride, guilt, fear, and agony?
Word meaning "disgusting" (could be used to describe Mrs. Pratchett)
What is loathsome?
The number of quotation marks needed around a piece of dialogue (when using for informative writing)
What is 3 quotation marks?
The purpose of narration
What is to show the tone, volume, actions, and thoughts of the characters who are speaking?
What Dahl's friends described him as after successfully completing the mouse prank
What is a hero?
The number of times Dahl got hit with a cane by Mr. Coombes
What is 4?
Word meaning "dirty" (could be used to describe Mrs. Pratchett's hands)
What is foul?
The two kinds of punctuation that must stay inside a quote (when quoting for informative writing)
What are an exclamation point and a question mark?
The purpose of sensory details
What is to help readers create a vivid picture of the stories events?