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Please answer the following comprehension questions.

Ch. 4-5

1. Why do you think Larry Dunn is a bully? Why might Byron think it is necessary to treat him so badly?

2. Does your opinion of Larry change after you learn that he is wearing a t-shirt, a ripped windbreaker, and tennis shoes with holes in the bottoms? Why?

3. What do you think of the punishment Momma is going to hand out to Byron for lighting a match in the house again? Do you think she has a right to feel this way and why?

Literary Elements: Prediction

Please predit what chapter 7 will be about.

Literary Device: Simile

A simile is a figure of speech in which a comparison between two unlike objects is stated directly using the words "like" and "as". For example: He kept going round and round me. I bet we looked like the solar system, with me being the sun and Byron being the orbiting Earth.

What is being compared in this simile?

How is the use of simile more effective that saying, "We moved around in a circle."