FEVER 1793

COOK COFFEE HOUSE

• The cook coffee house is where Matilda lives
• People come there to socialize
• Eliza cooks there

OLIGIVE MANSION

• The Oligives live there and they are a wealthy family who look down on the lower class
• The Cooks went there trying to marry off Matilda

RIVER

• Mattie fished there with Nathaniel
• Waste was dumped into the river and it might have spread the disease.

AMERICAN REVOLUTION

• The war between the American colonists and the British Empire
• The colonists invented the grooved rifle and it had a much greater range and accuracy than the British musket
• The colonists turned the tide of the war in a sneak attack during the winter
• The colonists got the help of France and drove the British out of America

MATTIE

• She is the main character of the book
• She is turning into an adult in the book and becoming independent
• She survived the yellow fever at Bush Hill

LUCILLE COOK

• She is the mother of Mattie
• She lost her husband and owns the Cook Coffee house
• She contracts the yellow fever

GRANDFATHER COOK

• He is a revolutionary war veteran
• He fought under George Washington
• He counteracted the yellow fever and recovered

ELIZA

• She was a slave who bought her freedom
• She cooks for the Cook Coffee house
• She is Mattie's best friend
• She is part of the Free African Society

GEORGE WASHINGTON

• He was the commander of the colonial forces in the American Revolution
• He was a plantation owner from Virginia
• His favorite breakfast was hoecakes which are pancakes made with cornmeal and served with honey and syrup

SUFFERING

• The theme suffering is that there is a lot of sadness and disparity in the city but you have to fight through it
• Mattie has to suffer through sickness, hunger, losing loved ones, and many other things but she fights through them to find the happy things in life

SELF-RELIANCE

• Self-reliance means not relying on others and being independent
• Mattie has to learn to be self-reliant in the book because people that she use to rely on aren't there anymore
• She is learning to be independent throughout the book

ACCOMPLISHING YOU DREAMS

• It means that you cannot give up on your dreams and you have to keep on trying to accomplish them
• Mattie never gives up on her dreams during the book and she keeps on trying to accomplish them even when the future looks bleak

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

• Simile-A figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as
• Metaphor-Comparing two things by using one kind of object or using in place of another to suggest the likeness between them

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE CONTINUED

• Hyperbole-Big exaggeration, usually with humor
• Onomatopoeia-Naming a thing or an action by imitating the sound associated with it

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE CONTINUED

• Imagery-visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.
• Foreshadowing-important hints that an author drops to prepare reader for what is to come, and help the reader anticipate the outcome

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE CONTINUED

• Allusion-an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
• Alliteration-The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE CONTINUED

• Personification-Giving something human qualities
• Symbol-a thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract.

METAPHOR

• "These pests are a plague"

ALLITERATION

• "My family owns the cook coffee house"

SIMILE

• "I felt like a noodle over-boiled in a stew pot"

IMAGERY

• "The stream was sweet and clear"

HYPERBOLE

• "Mother couldn't prepare a meal fit for a pig"

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