Name: ______Period: ______
Understanding Chapters 1 and 2
Vocabulary:
“The unvanquished truth, is how Freak would say it…”
1. Unvanquished means…______
“My brain is vacant, okay?”
2. Vacant means…______
3. What does Max mean by “…the year Gram and Grim took me over…”?
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4-11. Characterization (nicknames, appearance, statements, behavior, how others see them):
Max (Maxwell) / Kevin/Freak12. How might Max describe himself? Think about how he would say it in his own words and write one complete sentence in his voice.
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13. What does Grim mean when he says that Maxwell is “getting to look a lot like him”?
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14. Who is the Fair Gwen? ______
15. How is she fair? ______
16. What is Kevin doing as the movers are moving them into their new house?
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Setting:
17. What is a flashback?______
18. What do we see in the flashback?______
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19. Why is this important to knowing Freak and Max? ______
20. What does Max mean by”…your basic chunk of chain-link heaven”?
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21. When does Freak move into the duplex down the street from Max? ______
Language/Diction: Decide what type of figure of speech (metaphor, hyperbole, personification, or simile) the quote is, and then explain the meaning of the figure of speech.
Example: “I never had a brain until Freak came along and let me borrow his for a while, and that’s the truth, the whole truth.”
Figure of Speech: metaphor or hyperbole
Analysis: Max wasn’t very smart until Freak came along and taught him how to learn.
“Except I had a way of saying things with my fists and my feet even before we became Freak the Mighty…”
22. Figure of Speech:______
23. Analysis: ______
“At first she’s a glimpse, caught her going between the van and the front door, talking to the beards.”
24. Figure of Speech:______
25. Analysis: ______
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