Roll of Thunder Review Jeopardy

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Ms. McDermott

Who am I?

Elements of a Story

Examples of Theme

Literary Elements

Hodge Podge

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I started the fire to save T.J.

Who is Papa?

I want the 400 acres that my grandfather was forced to sell.

Who is Mr. Granger?

I gave my land to my two sons so no one could take it after I

die.Who is Big Ma?

I am the least likely white man to show prejudice to the

Logans.Who is Mr. Jameson?

I get upset on the 1st day of school

when Ms. Crocker gives me a book.

Who is Little Man?

In the exposition, this causes the Logan children the greatest anger

and indignity.What is the white children’s

school bus?

This is the mood when Uncle Hammer comes for the holidays.

What is excitement?

The night riders do not hang TJ because of this

What is fire that begins in the cotton fields?

This is the reason the author includes the story about Hammer passing the

Wallaces on the bridge.

What is comic relief to show he was unwilling to accept prejudice?

This is the reason Big Ma makes Cassie apologize to Ms. Lillian Jean in Strawberry.

What is Big Ma is afraid of what might happen to the Logans?

The two major themes of the novel.

What are social injustice and the value of family?

Our “fake” friendship exhibits social injustice and prejudice

Who are Cassie and Lillian Jean?

The theme when Jeremy Simms gives Stacey a Christmas present.

What is friendship?

The reason the author included the poem, “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry”

What is it shows the determination not to let prejudice get them down?

This is the reason Cassie cries at the end of the novel.

What is she understands what prejudice can do to a family or

person?

The author includes a thunderstorm the

night TJ is arrested.

What is foreshadowing something terrible.?

Mama tells Hammer someday the family will pay for his actions on the

bridge.

What is foreshadowing?

Big Ma tells Cassie the story of how the family got the land.

What is flashback?

This foreshadows Mama’s firing.

What is the warning from Ms. Crocker she is defacing the

books?

Of fear, adventure or excitement, the tone the night Papa, Stacey and Mr. Morrison return

from Vicksburg.

What is fear?

The reason the Wallaces stop to let Uncle Hammer drive across the

bridge.

What is they thought he was Mr. Granger?

Papa’s actions the night of the fire could be described as this.

What is clever?

“the bus careened drunkenly into our trap” is this type of figurative language.

What is personification?

“[the bus’s] right wheel in the gully like a lopsided billy goat on its knees” is an example of this figurative language.

What is simile?

“[the rain] sounded as if thousands of giant rocks were being hurled against the

earth is this.

What is a simile?

The historical event that is the backdrop of this novel

What is the Great Depression?