Stargirl Novel Review

"She swirled like a dust devil" is what type of literary device?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower" is what type of literary device?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

"The sun lay down" is what type of literary device?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"A baseball bat could not have hit me harder than that smile did" is what type of literary device?

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Mica High School's student band is known as?

• The World's Kindest Marching Band

• The World's Largest Marching Band

• The World's Smallest Marching Band

• The World's Worst Marching Band

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What is the main requirement to join the Sunflower Club?

• Must wear sunflowers every day

• play the ukulele

• promise to do one nice thing per day for someone other than yourself

• Send cards to people

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.1

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

What is the best example of the climax in Stargirl?

• The return from the oratory contest

• The dance

• The Hot Seat Interview

• The forming of Leo and Stargirls relationship

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Of the following, what did the students of Mica do to show their acceptance of Stargirl?

• Created the Sunflower Club

• Had a ukulele player in the band

• Cheered for the other team

• All of the above

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is the purpose of this passage:  Leo says, "I had never realized how much I needed the attention of others to confirm my own presence."

• Make the reader feel sorry for Leo

• Make the reader aware of the setting

• Make the reader think about the plot

• Make the reader consider the theme of identity

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

After Susan finishes her speech, the crowd goes wild. Leo says, "The cheering was as wild as that of the crowd at a championship basketball game."  What is the purpose of this sentence?

• To show us the way Leo was feeling at the end of the speech.

• To contrast the booing she received at the basketball game

• To provide a fact based re-telling of the night of the speech.

• To make the reader feel sorry for Leo and Stargirl's relationship.

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.3