Literary Terms
They Said What?
Characters
It Happened Where?
Walk Two Moons Potpourri
100
The classroom was like a warzone.
What is a simile?
100
This character said, "We'll see the whole ding-dong country!"
Who is Gramps?
100
The narrator of the story.
Who is Salamanca?
100
Salamanca grows up in this state.
What is Kentucky?
100
Salamanca's nickname.
What is chickabiddy?
200
Time is money.
What is a metaphor?
200
This character said, "I sure would like to put my feet in that water."
Who is Gram?
200
Salamanca's friend, she tells a story about her.
Who is Phoebe Winterbottom?
200
Salamanca, Gramps, and Gram travel to this state.
What is Ohio?
200
She is the author of Walk Two Moons.
Who is Sharon Creech?
300
I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.
What is a hyperbole?
300
This character said, "I want to see Mrs. Winterbottom. Is she here or what?"
Who is the "Lunatic?"
300
He mysteriously appears on Phoebe's doorstep.
Who is the "Lunatic" or Mike?
300
Gram was so happy to see this monument.
What is Old Faithful?
300
Examples include, bittersweet, jumbo shrimp, and pretty ugly.
What is an oxymoron?
400
It's raining cats and dogs.
What is an idiom?
400
This character said, "As I walked home, I thought about the message. In the course of a lifetime, what does it matter?"
Who is Salamanca?
400
Her name means "dead body."
Who is Margaret Cadaver?
400
This monument insulted Gramps, Gram, and Sal.
What is Mount Rushmore?
400
The actual name of the Indian tribe of which Salamanca's great-great grandmother belonged?
What is Seneca?
500
The silent darkness whispered rush, rush, rush...
What is personification?
500
This character wrote, "Roses are red, Dirt is brown, Please be my valentine, Or else I'll frown."
Who is Ben?
500
She lives with her daughter next door to Phoebe.
Who is Mrs. Partridge?
500
Gram is bitten by a water moccasin in this river.
What is the Missouri River?
500
The tall, thin man at the State Fair guessed Phoebe's father to be this age.
What is 52?