Vocab
Literary Devices
The Marrow Thieves
Parts of Speech
Miscellanea
100

A state or instance of serious or continued difficulty or misfortune

What is Adversity? 

100

A comparison using “like” or “as”

What is Simile? 
100

The group stays at this abandoned hotel for a brief time

What is The Four Winds? 

100

A person/animal, place, thing, or idea

What is a Noun? 

100

This kind of world in a fictional story is an imagined state or society in which there is great suffering or injustice, and is typically totalitarian or post-apocalyptic

What is a Dystopia? 

200

To come back or go back, as to a former condition, period, or subject

What is Revert? 

200

When an object is given human characteristics

What is Personification? 

200

Minerva tells a story about this creature to the girls one night

What is the Rogarou? 

200

An action or a state of being

What is a Verb? 

200

Emily Dickinson personifies this concept in her poetry, also turned into a character played by Wiz Khalifa in the show Dickinson 

What is Death? 

300

Superficially fair, reasonable, or valuable; appearing worthy of belief

What is Plausible? 

300

A comparison that does not use “like” or “as”

What is Metaphor? 

300

RiRi finds this exciting piece of attire in the woods and takes it with her

What are the Pink boots? 

300

A word used in place of a noun

What is a Pronoun? 

300

In There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury, this structure is automated to make life run "smoothly," having disastrous effects in the end

What is the House? 

400

Marked by lack of plan, order, or direction

What is Haphazard? 

400

A hint or warning of what is to come in the future

What is Foreshadowing? 

400

Wab used this skill to make a living, as told in her coming-to story

What is Running? 

400

Describes or modifies a noun or pronoun

What is an Adjective? 

400

Station Eleven also is the title of this treasured item within the story  

What is a Graphic novel? 

500

A saying often in metaphorical form that typically embodies a common observation

What is Adage? 

500

Extreme exaggeration

What is Hyperbole? 

500

Instead of a wedding ring, Miig has this to signify his marriage to Isaac

What is a Tattoo of a buffalo? 

500
Describes or modifies a verb, adjective, or another...
What is an Adverb? 
500

This name refers to a group of culturally and linguistically related First Nations that live in both Canada and the United States, and includes many of the characters of The Marrow Thieves 

What is the Anishinaabe? 

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