Vocab 12
Antonym: Nadir
zenith
unskilled, clumsy
inept
the leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text.
Protagonist
handmaid who is pregnant in first part of book
Janine
The place where people are publicly punished for "crimes" in Gilead
the wall
With a 17 percent in the class, any effort to pass the final would be _____________.
futile
The teenage girl made some ______ remarks about her peers.
insipid
in literature *THIS* refers to the author's attitude toward a certain topic.
Tone
female character who was a former friend of Offred and now works as a prostitute, Offred runs into her at the speakeasy type club
Moira
Offred's husband before Gilead
tense bitterness in a relationship
acrimony
comfort in a time of stress or sadness
solace
a feeling that can refer to the emotional state of mind of a person/character or the atmosphere of a story
Mood
Wife of Fred Waterford, former televangelist preacher
Serena Joy
offers to help Offred conceive a child
her doctor
synonym: classless, tacky
gauche
Very superficial and ordinary, nothing special
pedestrian
Identify the main parts of a plot (5)
exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution
household servant who wears green, is barren and unmarried
a martha
where women are shipped to do manual labor if they are ill or unable to bear children as handmaids any longer
the colonies
to think deeply, to chew on it
ruminate
gut reaction to something
Visceral
modes of persuasion used to convince audience
ethos, pathos, logos
the group of women responsible for training the handmaids
identify the colors worn by: Handmaids, Aunts, Marthas, Wives
Red
Brown
Green
Blue