Vocabulary
Poetry Terms
Chronicle of a death foretold
Maus 1
Usage
100
strongly held.
What is tenacious
100
A measured pattern of rhythmic accents in poems
What is meter
100
Warns Colonel Aponte about the Vicario brothers' plan
Who is Leandro Pornoy
100
Artie's mother
Who is Anja
200
the highest point of something.
What is an apex
200
A four-line long stanza in a poem.
What is a quatrain
200
the Butcher.
Who is Faustino Santos
200
How Vladek becomes wealthy.
What is textile Manufacturing
200
The track-(meat, meet) lasted all day.
What is meet
300
A figure of speech in which a part is substituted for a whole.
What is a synecdoche
300
Visits the town to conduct research about the crime
Who is the Investigating Magistrate
300
The way the Polish are represented in the book.
What are pigs
300
When you go to the store, tell me, so I can go (to, too).
What is too
400
characterized by or adapted to a dry habitat.
What is xeric
400
A long, stately poem in stanzas of varied length, meter, and form.
What is an Ode
400
Marries Pablo Vicario after he is released from jail.
Who is Prudencia Cotes
400
Vladek and Anja's first child
Who is Richeau
400
She (rode, road) her car to work that morning.
What is rode.
500
a short, descriptive literary sketch.
What is a vignette
500
A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.
What is a Villanelle
500
The Narrator's brother.
Who is Luis Enrique
500
A comic strip written by Artie depicting his mother's suicide.
What is "Prisoner on the Hell Planet"
500
The dog ate (its, it's) bone, then went (to, too), his bed
What is its, to
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