Chapters 1-9 Tom Sawyer

"The harder Tom tried to fasten his mind on his book, the more his ideas wandered."
What could have helped Tom in this situation? 

• loud music
• TttT
• a cheeseburger
• a love letter from Becky

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Mark Twain compared the tick that Huck and Joe played with during school to a prisoner. What figurative language is at work here?

• imagery
• hyperbole
• simile
• personification (a special kind of metaphor)

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What is your best inference about the following narrated scene?
"A tremendous whack came down on Tom's shoulders, and its duplicate on Joe's, and for the space of two minutes, the dust continued to fly from the two jackets and the whole school to enjoy it."

• the teacher beat them for fooling around during their lessons.
• The kids entered into one massive fight with each other.
• Aunt Polly showed up and beat them both with her slipper.
• The teacher made the boys wipe the dusty chalkboard with their jackets.

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What Notice & Note is at work when Tom noticed Becky's eyes grow wide after he said, "Oh, it's ever so jolly! Why, me and Amy Lawrence--"

• Words of the Wiser
• Again and Again
• Aha Moment
• Memory Moment

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"Nature lay in a trance that was broken by no sound but the occasional far-off hammering of a wood-pecker," is an example of what kinds of figurative language?

• simile and hyperbole
• personification and imagery
• simile and metaphor
• simile and imagery

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What Notice & Note and literary term is at work below.
"Now as to the girl. What had he done? Nothing. He had meant the best in the world and been treated like a dog--like  a very dog. She would be sorry some day--maybe when it was too late." 

• Tough Question and Internal Conflict
• Words of the Wiser and Imagery
• Again and Again and dramatic irony
• Contrast and Contradiction and hyperbole

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Tom's incantation, "Brother, go find your brother," is an example of personification because it refers to an object that he throws in the woods. What is this object?

• a rock
• a Barlow knife
• a tin trumpet
• a marble

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The fact that Tom and Joe play Robin Hood "by the book from memory," allows a reader to infer what?

• They hate everything they read.
• The keep a hidden book in the woods and read their lines from it.
• The teacher probably did not assign that book; they chose it themselves.
• They both read Robin Hood well enough to remember the lines exactly.

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While acting out his part in Robin Hook, Tom fell on a nettle and sprang up quicky. What is a nettle?

• a plant that induces a stinging pain on creatures that touch it
• a synonym for a pinecone
• a rock slightly protruding from the ground
• a type of pinch bug

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The deathwatch beetle is mentioned in the film Practical Magic, and its characteristic ticking sound serves as the harbinger of death. Its nature as an ill omen is alluded to in the fourth book of John Keats' "Endymion." When does Tom hear the deathwatch beetle's ticking?

• While lying in bed waiting for Huck's 'meow'
• Just after seeing men in the graveyard
• When Injun Joe was standing over Muff Potter and the man he just killed

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