Figurative Language
What is a metaphor?
What does peculiar mean??
odd, strange or unusual
Why were Sal, Gram and Gramps going to Lewiston, Idaho?
To get to Sal's mother
What happened to Gram when cooling off on a hot day?
She was bitten by a snake.
Mary Lou's cousin; Sal's classmate
Ben
What is a simile?
What does malevolent mean?
evil
Where did Sal see Phoebe for the first time?
In her window
At the hospital, what did Sal give the boy?
$50
He works at his nine-to-five job as a mapmaker and comes home, withdrawn, distant, and largely unspeaking
Mr. Winterbottom
Is this sentence a simile or metaphor: He was a walking dictionary.
Metaphor
What does anonymous mean?
not named; unidentified
What did Sal's mother send her after she left?
postcards
What does the meaning "to catch fish in the air" mean?
It is impossible; not going to happen
Phoebe's next-door neighbor: Helps Mr. Hiddle find a job selling farm machinery in order that he could live in Euclid, away from his farm.
Margaret Cadaver
Is this sentence a simile or metaphor: Her dress was as white as snow.
What does colossal mean?
extremely large
What did the first message say that was found on the Winterbottom's porch?
"Don't judge a man until you've walked two moons in his moccasins."
What is the singing tree?
Tree in Sal's yard in Kentucky that seemed to sing. Stopped sinning after her mother left.
The loving and tolerant parents of a lively and unruly household.
Mr. and Mrs. Finney
Is this sentence a simile or metaphor: The room was like an oven, it was so hot.
What does conducting mean?
to manage
What happens when Ben touches Sal as they walk home from the drugstore?
Sal flinches away
What does "in the course of a lifetime, what does it matter" mean?
In the grand scheme of things, what happens today won't matter in the future.
The mysterious young man who appears on Phoebe's doorstep and lurks threateningly around her neighborhood.
The Lunatic