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$100 Answer from Buzzwords

A punitive ban that forbids relations with other bodies, cooperation with a policy, or the handling of goods:“The Logan family tried to encourage a ________ on the Wallace store.”

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What is boycott?

$200 Answer from Buzzwords

To resound in a succession of echoes:“The bell ___________ across the

compound and signaled the end of recess.”

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What is reverberated?

$300 Answer from Buzzwords

Expressing something forcibly and clearly:“Cassie declared, with an __________ nod, that her family was not interested in selling the property.”

$300 Question from Buzzwords

What is emphatic?

$400 Answer from Buzzwords

A preconceived opinion not based on reason or experience”

“Mr. Barnett showed _________ toward minorities whenever he waited on the white customers before T.J.”

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What is prejudice?

$500 Answer from Buzzwords

To move or travel hurriedly:“Cassie ________ back to bed

before Big Ma caught her eavesdropping.”

$500 Question from Buzzwords

What is hastened?

$100 Answer Quotes and Dialogue

“Why did you disobey me?”“Stacey was chasing after T.J.”“That’s not a good reason to disobey your mother!”

$100 Answer from Quotes and Dialogue

What is dialogue?

$200 Answer from Quotes and Dialogue

She said, “Sit in your seat, child.”

$200 Question from Quotes and Dialogue

What is a direct quotation?

$300 Answer from Quotes and Dialogue

Miss Crocker said that I should go back to my seat.

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What is an indirect quotation.

$400 Answer from Quotes and Dialogue

“Where’s he going?” I cried.“He’ll be back,” said T.J., wandering away.

$400 Question from Quotes and Dialogue

What are speaker tags?

$500 Answer from Quotes and Dialogue

“Ain’t y’all something? Can’t hardly call y’all babies no more.”

$500 Question from Quotes and Dialogue

What is dialect?

$100 Answer from Punctuating Quotes and Dialogue

She said, “My favorite short story is “A Retrieved Reformation” by O’Henry.”

$100 Question from Punctuating Quotes and Dialogue

What is the mistake within the quotation: that the short story’s title is surrounded by two quotation marks on each side instead of one?

$200 Answer from Punctuating Quotes and Dialogue

“What,” Stacey interjected, “Did you say to me?”

$200 Question from Punctuating Quotes and Dialogue

What is the mistake within the quotation: that the “D” in “Did” is capitalized instead of lowercased?

$300 Answer from Punctuating Quotes and Dialogue

“I told you to go back to bed,” said Mama “and I don’t plan to say it again before I get my switch!”

$300 Question from Punctuating Quotes and Dialogue

What is the mistake within the speaker tag: that a comma does not precede the second half of the quotation, as commas should separate both parts of the speaker tag from both parts of the quotation?

$400 Answer from Punctuating Quotes and Dialogue

“Why did you disobey your mama,” asked Mr. Morrison.

$400 Question from Punctuating Quotes and Dialogue

What is the mistake within the quotation: that a comma separates the quotation from the speaker tag instead of a question mark?

$500 Answer from Punctuating Quotes and Dialogue

“I don’t understand why he thinks he’s better just because he’s white,” Cassie looked up at her mother with questioning eyes.

$500 Question from Punctuating Quotes and Dialogue

What is the mistake in the quotation: that a period does not end the quotation as it should? There is not speaker tag, so a period should separate the quotation from the rest of the narration.

$100 Answer from Figurative Language

“The man was a human tree in height” (Taylor 34).

$100 Question from Figurative Language

What is a metaphor? Mr. Morrison’s massive frame is compared to the size and look of a tree. The comparison becomes an extended metaphor whenever the rest of his body is also compared to a “long trunk” (Taylor 34).

$200 Answer from Key Terms

“At first, the rain had merely splotched the dust, which seemed to be rejoicing in its own resiliency and laughing at the heavy drops thudding against it” (Taylor 42).

$200 Question from Key Terms

What is personification? By personifying the dust, Taylor shows how dry it had been before the hard rain. The dust was resilient, meaning dry, hot conditions were reluctant to give way to a wet Mississippi.

$300 Answer from Figurative Language

“Five minutes later we were skidding like frightened puppies as the bus accelerated and barreled down the narrow rain-soaked road” (Taylor 48).

$300 Answer from Figurative Language

What is simile? As the bus surprises the children, they are compared to puppies who are suddenly frightened by something unexpected. This comparison shows just how vulnerable the children felt as they walked to school each day.

$400 Answer from Figurative Language

“Just one word outa you, T.J.,” he said tightly. “Just one word.” “Hey, man, I ain’t said nothin’! I’m just as burnt as you are” (Taylor 48).

$400 Question from Figurative Language

What is an idiom? By saying that he’s “burnt,” T.J. is trying to express that he is also upset about what the bus driver did to Little Man. Within the context (the situation), one can tell that the children are burning with anger and frustration.

$500 Answer from Figurative Language

“Expecting to see the yard-wide ditch we had dug at noon, we were not prepared for the twelve-foot lake which glimmered up at us” (Taylor 53).

$500 Question from Figurative LanguageWhat is hyperbole? The hole had not turned into a lake and was not twelve feet in depth. If it had become that deep, the bus would have become submerged in the water. The point of this hyperbole is to emphasize that the hole had become much more noticeable and dangerous.