Ransom of Little Red Chief
Vocabulary
Literary Terms
Stylistic Techniques
Dawn of Wonder
100

What the kid liked to play

What is "Red Chief"?

100

To persuade nicely

What is coax?

100

Hint of things to come

What is foreshadowing?

100

This Dress Up replaces a weak one

What is a strong verb?

100

Aedan's biggest fear

What is his father?

200

What the kid first did to Bill

What is throw a rock at him?

200

Structure meant to hold up buildings like the U.S. Capitol.

What is a pillar?

200

Comparison of two things

What are simile/metaphor?

200

A clause added to describe a person or a thing

What is a who/which clause?

200

Aedan is this age at the beginning of the book

What is 12?
300

Kidnapper who almost got scalped

Who is Bill?

300

To spend recklessly or prodigiously

What is squander?

300
A novel that follows the character formation of the protagonist

What is bildungsroman?

300

These words tell us how something is being done

What are -ly adverbs?

300

This man is Aedan's unlikely mentor

Who is Fergal?

400
Name of the sleepy, flat town

What is Summit?

400

Hardworking person who cares about his work

What is diligent?

400

A word that sounds like the noise it makes

What is Onomatopoeia?

400

The words represented by www.asia.wub

What are: when, while, where, as, since, if, although, whereas, unless, because?
400
This being helped Aedan overcome his fear

Who is the Ancient?

500

Amount of money the kidnappers first asked for

What is $2,000?

500
To do something boldy, without fear

What is audacious?

500

Reference in literature, movies and memes to a myth, Bible story, a historical event or a famous person 

What is an allusion?

500

Words such as go/went, see/saw, say/said, look/see

What is banned?

500

Character who was deadly accurate with a peashooter.

Who was peashot?

600

Amount of money the kidnappers had to pay

What is $250?

600

To spend prodigiously, wastefully

What is squander?

600

Words or events that are the opposite of what is said or expected

What is irony?

600

Before writing, writers should make one of these to help order their thoughts

What is a keyword outline?

600

Territory where strange creatures live and Aedan awakes a gigantic snake.

What is Khultum?

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