Vocab
To remove the shell or casing from corn or shellfish.
What is shucking?
The main events of a story, novel, movie, or similar work.
What is plot?
New, interesting, exciting, fun, exploring new environments.
What is Stage 1?
The narrator of Russell's story.
Who is Claudette?
The general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc.
What is tone?
Decayed organic material used as plant fertilizer.
What is compost?
The narrator of Russell's story.
Who is Claudette?
Reject host culture. Wonder how the people can live like they do.
What is Stage 3?
The teachers at St. Lucy's.
What are nuns?
A short quotation or saying at the beginning of a book or chapter, intended to suggest its theme.
What is an epigraph?
In a way that suggests that something bad is going to happen.
What is ominously?
Claudette's place in the pack.
What is middle?
Interact effectively in new cultural environment.
What is Stage 5?
Destructive, ornery, hates adapting.
Who is Mirabella?
Increasing or increased in quantity, degree, or force by successive additions.
What is cumulative?
A type of communication that does not use a word's strict or realistic meaning.
What is figurative language?
The theme or central idea of the story.
What is adapting?
Work to adjust to new culture. Stressed and experiencing dislocation.
What is Stage 2?
Adapted fast, felt superior to others.
Who is Jeanette?
The supernatural transformation of a person into a wolf, as recounted in folk tales.
What is lycanthropic?
A word that factors in emotional associations or other contextual factors to derive meaning.
What is connotative meaning?
This happens at the end of the story.
What is Mirabella ruins the ball?
Feel more comfortable in new environment.
What is Stage 4?
Raised in captivity, stuck-up.
Who are the purebred girls?
A member of the Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic order of priests.
What is Jesuit?