Out of the Dust

4. Poetry that does not have a rhyme scheme or meter.
8. The setting in a plotline.
9. Billie Jo is the _____ in Out of the Dust.
11. To keep going and not give up in the face of adversity.
13. Doc Rice suggested that this would help Billie Jo's hands.
15. The town in Arizona where Billie Jo got off the train.
21. A tall grass whose seeds are used as grain and to make syrup.
23. A crop that Ma suggested the family plant.
25. Mad Dog played on a radio station in this Texas town.
26. The family worked to save (their/there) farm.
27. The region of Oklahoma where Billie Jo lives.
28. The Depression Era program that helped people recover from the financial crisis.
30. Main crop planted by Billie Jo's family.

1. A comparison using like or as.
2. Money from the President's Ball went to the ___ Foundation.
3. Giving human qualities to an animal or object.
5. Poetry whose shape reveals the theme.
6. A feeling that something will happen - even in challenging times
7. Historic Fiction is an example of a literary _____.
10. Man v. Self, Man v. Man , Man v. Nature are examples of this.
12. Group of lines in a poem that function as a unit.
14. An arrangement of stressed or unstressed syllables in a poem.
16. A layer of soil held together by the roots of grass.
17. A unit of measurement for agricultural crops.
18. Disease that attached FDR.
19. The high point of a story - the point of no return.
20. The name of the president and Billie Jo's late brother.
22. A symbol that appears over and over in a text and directly connects to a theme.
24. The setting of Out of the Dust.
29. A long period of dry weather.