Vocabulary
Emulate
What is "strive to equal or match"?
"The barn was very large. It was very old. It smelled of hay and it smelled of manure. It smelled of the perspiration of tired horses and the wonderful sweet breath of patient cows. It smelled of grain and of harness dressing and of axle grease and of rubber boots and of new rope." - Charlotte's Web
What is Imagery?
A line having no end punctuation but running over to the next line.
What is "Enjambment"?
The organization and presentation of events and scenes in a work of fiction or drama so that the reader or observer is prepared to some degree for what occurs later in the work
What is Foreshadowing?
“The Fastest Kid in the Fifth Grade” is chapter 3 of “Bridge to” this enchanted land
What is "Terabithia"?
Aloof
What is "acting distant, cold, or detached"?
“Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality.”
- “Because I could not stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson
What is Personification?
The repetition of identical vowel sounds in different words in close proximity. Example: deep green sea.
What is "Assonance"?
Something (such as an important idea or subject) that is repeated throughout a book, story, etc.
What is Motif?
Daisy Buchanan’s cousin, he narrates “The Great Gatsby”
Who is Nick Carraway?
Ambivilance
What is "mixed feelings or emotions"?
"I had to wait for ten days - an eternity."
- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
What is Hyperbole?
The number of feet within a line of traditional verse. Example: iambic pentameter.
What is "Meter"?
The general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc.
What is Tone?
This beloved novel whose first word is "Christmas" has been adapted for a Christmas 2019 movie, with Meryl Streep as Aunt March
What is Little Women?
Capricious
What is "determined by chance or impulse rather than by necessity"?
“But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!” —Romeo & Juliet, William Shakespeare
What is Metaphor?
A rhetorical figure that describes one sensory impression in terms of a different sense, or one perception in terms of a totally different or even opposite feeling. Example: "darkness visible" "green thought"
What is "Synaesthesia"?
An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.
What is Soliloquy?
In Edgar Allen Poe's poem "The Raven," the narrator's visitor, the raven, only says which word?
What is Nevermore?
Churlish
What is "surly or having a bad disposition"?
“O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock the meat it feeds on." – Othello
What is Idiom?
A six-line stanza or unit of poetry.
What is "Sestat"?
An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference
What is Allusion?
The names of Jane Eyre's two girl cousins (on the Reed side of her family).
Who are Eliza and Georgiana?