1. Literary Terms

2.  Personification - When animals, ideas, and inanimate objects are given human character, traits, abilities, or reactions.  For example: The lights knocked some of the darkness out of the way and we felt safe again.  What has been personified?  What does this use of personification reveal about the Watsons’ feelings at the rest stop in Appalachia?

3.  Symbolism - Frequent use of words, places, characters, or objects that mean something beyond what they are on a literal level.  For example: reread the last part of chapter 10 where the Watsons pull off the road at a dark, deserted rest stop in the mountains of Tennessee.  The dark might symbolize racial hatred in America. If so, what might the Brown Bomber symbolize?

4.  Foreshadowing - Suggesting, hinting, indicating, or showing what will occur later in a narrative; often providing hints about what will happen next.  What do you think might be foreshadowed by Mr. Robert’s story about saving his dog from drowning?