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Something Upstairs
Miscellaneous
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Parts of Speech
Literary Terminology
100
He is author of the novel.
Who is Avi?
100
This vocabulary word means extremely thin and was used to describe T.J.
What is emaciated?
100
This is the state place setting for the novel.
What is Mississippi?
100
This part of speech is a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
100
This term is a comparison between two unlike things using the word "as" or "like."
What is a simile?
200
Caleb was one of these spooky shadows.
What is a ghost?
200
This vocabulary word means very picky about details. It describes Little Man perfectly.
What is meticulous?
200
She is the narrator of the story.
Who is Cassie?
200
This part of speech is used to describe a noun or pronoun.
What is an adjective?
200
This is giving human characteristics to an inanimate object.
What is personification?
300
Willinghast was one of these despicable people.
What is a slave merchant?
300
This term is the statement in an essay that clearly identifies the point of your paper. It should be included in every introductory paragraph.
What is a thesis?
300
Mama inspired people to participate in one of these to make a point to the Wallaces.
What is a boycott?
300
Run, skip, and jump are all examples of this part of speech.
What is a verb?
300
This term describes a situation when the opposite of what you expect to happen takes place.
What is irony?
400
This was taken from Kenny and prevented his return to his own time.
What is a Dodgers keychain?
400
This type of word is used to help move a reader/writer from one idea to another when reading/writing text.
What is a transition?
400
This natural event symbolized purification and renewal in the book.
What is rain?
400
He, she, it, they, and them are all examples of this part of speech.
What is a pronoun?
400
This sound device is when a word's sound suggests its meaning.
What is onomatopoeia?
500
This is the state place setting for the events in the novel.
What is Rhode Island?
500
This type of punctuation is used to join two independent clauses in a compound sentence without using a conjunction.
What is a semicolon?
500
She is the author of this book.
Who is Mildred Taylor?
500
This part of speech is used to help show a relationship between and among objects and things.
What is a preposition?
500
This term is a reference to mythology, the Bible, famous artwork, or some other well-known place or fact.
What is an allusion?