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Chapter 5: The snow is described as " a cold feather-touch". This is a ...
metaphor
Chapter 5: Her dress was "like cobwebs in the dew" - This is a...
simile
Abanazer Bolger says to Tom Hustings that he has two treasures. He is talking about the brooch and the boy. Using "treasure" for the boy is a...
metaphor
Chapter 1: "he would need to [call on] certain of the townsfolk, people who would be his eyes and ears in the town" is an example of ...
a metaphor
Chapter 1: "He growled in the back of his throat, like a beast of prey, angry and frustrated" is an example of...
a simile
Chapter 1: "The fog wreathed around him like a long-lost friend" is an example of...
a simile
Chapter 1: "He could smell the child: a milky smell, like chocolate chip cookies" - this is an example of...
a simile
Chapter 1 "His shoes...were polished to such a shine that they looked like dark mirrors" - this is an example of...
a simile
Chapter 1: "The knife had done almost everything it was brought to that house to do" - this is an example of...
personification. The knife is treated like a person
What does the graveyard gate symbolise?
Both safety and a boundary
What do the clothes symbolise that Bod gets from Silas when he is 10?
that Bod is different, that he will one day leave the Graveyard
What does the Macabray symbolise?
a meeting of the living and the dead and harmony between them
What do the white flowers in winter symbolise?
hope, life, and the Macabray
When Bod goes to check out Potter's Field, he grabs a red apple and then falls into Potter's Field. What do you think the apple symbolises?
curiosity, doing something forbidden, temptation
What does a tombstone symbolise for Liza?
being remembered, being respected, being loved
What does the Lady on the Grey symbolise?
death
What is the point of view of the story?
Third person limited (we are limited to what Bod is feeling and thinking)
Who is telling the story?
An outside narrator
Who is the antagonist in the Graveyard Book?
so far, the Man Jack. Perhaps also someone he is working for.
Who is the protagonist of the Graveyard Book?
Bod (Nobody Owens)
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