Vocab
(adj) Meat-eating
What is Carnivorous?
What Mrs. Schachter claims to see outside the window while on the train.
What is Fire?
This is the type of store the TenBoom family owned.
What is a watch shop?
This style can rhyme or not, it can have as many lines or stanzas as the poet wants, and it can be about anything the author wants.
What is Free Verse?
The town that TKAM is set in
What is Maycomb, Alabama?
The state that Mr. Hervey grew up in
What is Ohio?
(adj) Sweet as honey or smoothly flowing (sound or words)
What is Mellifluous
The dentist was looking for these while performing checks on the inmates mouths.
What are gold/silver teeth?
Who delivers a speech over the radio saying that there will be no war?
Who is the Prime Minister?
Stanza of 2 lines; often, a pair of rhymed lines.
What is a couplet?
Jem loses these when the kids are running away from the Radley house.
What are his pants?
The largest animal currently living on Earth
What is a blue whale?
(v) to sleepwalk
What is Somnambulate?
Elie encounters an older inmate in the infirmary. Who/what does this person say they have the most faith in?
Who is Hitler?
A fast and unexpected roundup of Jews and search of homes.
What is a Razzia?
Close repetition of consonant sounds--anywhere within the words.
What is Consonance?
This family is above the Ewells but is still referred to as "trash."
Who are the Cunninghams?
Mr. Hervey's brother, Andrew, was drafted by this MLB team
Who are the Detroit Tigers?
(adj) Showing unusually early development, especially mentally
What is Precocious?
The Jews are marched out of camp and head to Buchenwald. Elie describes something as his "warm blanket." What is it?
What is snow?
Peter, Corrie's nephew is taken by the Gestapo for doing this.
What is singing the national anthem?
Foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stress.
What is an Iamb?
This is what Miss Maudie uses to get the kids inside when Miss Stephanie and Mr. Avery are gossiping after the trial.
What is cake?
The name of this African animal means "river horse"
What is a Hippopotamus?
(adj) Drowsy; sleepy
What is Somnolent?
Elie's father becomes sick with this.
What is dysentery?
Corrie is assigned to a knitting unit where she knits socks. There, she is able to share the Bible because the guards do not come in the room. What keeps the guards out?
What are fleas?
Continuation of sense and rhythmic movement from one line to the next; also called a "run-on" line.
What is Enjambment?
This child in Scout's 1st grade class stood up against Burris Ewell when Burris was acting up with Miss Caroline.
Who is Little Chuck Little?
This was the first feature-length animated film ever released
What is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs