Chapter Three (BNB) and Figurative Language

Question 1

" There was a gray gas can next to a bunch of gray rakes and a pile of gray rags, and a gray.."

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Symbolism

Question 2

“...he could kiss my wrist if he thought that was going to happen”

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Idiom

Question 3

What is the "rustling, like a couple of pieces of paper being rubbed together" that Bud hears?

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The hornets emerging from their broken nest

Question 4

At the end of the chapter, Bud is thinking about what?

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Getting revenge on the Amoses

Question 5

Bud's rule number 328 says that when you make up your mind to do something, you'd better what?

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Hurry up and do it before you change your mind

Question 6

What does Bud hit the hornet's nest with?

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A rake

Question 7

The repetition of the word "gray" when Bud describes the shed makes the reader feel ________?

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Monotonous

Question 8

"I hung the rag over the fish heads so I couldn't see them and they couldn't see me."

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Personification

Question 9

What does Bud mean when he says "it sounded like the five other breathers in the shed left"?

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His breathing had finally gotten quieter

Question 10

When Bud pulls out his jack knife, he pulls out his ________?

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Pocket knife

Question 11

Why do authors use literary devices and figurative language in their writings?

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To make their readers feel a certain kind of way

Question 12

"Another fire-nail went into my knee and a second one went into my sock."

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Metaphor

Question 13

"“I stood upon the woodpile and held the rake like it was a Louisville Slugger."

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Simile

Question 14

What does Bud really see hanging from the rafters in the shed?

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A hornet's nest

Question 15

What does Bud say the newspaper pasted on the window peels like?

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Confetti

Question 16

"Halfway up the door were three little flat monster heads guarding the doorknob" What are they?

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Dried out fish heads

Question 17

"... like a couple pieces of paper rubbing together or dry leaves blowing around in the wind"

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Imagery

Question 18

The story Bud tells about Bugs is called a:

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Flashback

Question 19

"All [the cockroach] kept yelling was, 'My legs! My legs! Why have they done this to my legs?'"

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Personification

Question 20

" This was a great place for shadow puppets so I made my hand be a wolf and a dog and a duck"

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Anaphora

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