MT Vocab 1
A person who eats the flesh of other human beings.
What is cannibal?
Not easily convinced; having doubts or reservations.
Skeptical
Who is Frenchie?
Everyone, except Indigenous people, have lost the ability to do this thing.
What is dream?
The time and place where a story takes place.
What is setting?
Our school mission.
What is to educate the whole person to see with Christ's eyes?
The premier speech competition won by Mr. Z and one of your classmates, WC.
What is the (CNMI) Attorney General's (AG's) Cup?
A modulation or inflection of the voice.
What is cadence?
Not moving or not intended to be moved.
What is Stationary?
The person who gets kidnapped by Recruiters at the beginning of the novel.
Who is Mitch?
Some people in the world believe that the ability to dream resides in this particular body part.
What is (bone) marrow?
A comparison that uses like or as?
What is a simile?
A 2004 AlumKnight who is a high school teacher at Mount Carmel School.
Who is Ms. Christine Fitial?
The Saipan village that Mr. Z resides.
Where is San Roque?
Susceptible to physical or emotional attack or harm.
What is vulnerable?
A state, period, or place of isolation in which people or animals that may have been exposed to infectious disease are placed.
What is Quarantine?
A character who appears later in the novel who becomes Frenchie's rival by competing for Rose's affection.
Who is Derrick?
The specific Indigenous tribe that Frenchie hails from.
What is Metis?
The main argument or claim in an academic essay.
What is a thesis?
The MCS mascot before we were Knights.
What are the Crusaders?
The island Mr. Z was born on.
Where is Hawai'i?
Having complex patterns of colors; multicolored.
What is Kaleidoscopic?
People who attend a funeral as a relative or friend of the dead person.
What are Mourners?
He killed RiRi by jumping from a cliff with her.
Who is Lincoln?
The name for the brief narratives told my characters in the novel that explain their history, important life events, and how they came to meet the main family group.
What is a coming-to-story?
A comparison between two unalike things.
What is metaphor?
The President of Mount Carmel School before Dr. Galvin Deleon Guerrero.
Who is Margaret Dela Cruz?
Mr. Z shared his birthday with this religious figure.
Who is Mother Mary?
To imitate something or someone.
What is Emulate?
Serious and immediate danger.
What is Peril?
One of the few people in the novel who still know the "language". Also, Miigwan's husband.
Who is Isaac?
The one word English translation of the Indigenous word "nishin".
What is "good"?
Hemingway uses a metaphor to compare literature to this specific cold object.
What is an iceberg?
Finish the lyric: "Our Lady of Carmel we're gathered today. To sing with one _____ what we mean to say".
What is Chorus?
Mr. Z's initial major that he pursued for his bachelor degree before switching to English.
What is Chemistry?