Characters
Setting
Plot
Elements of a Story
Vocabulary
100
The protagonist of the story.
Who is Widge?
100
The country the novel takes place in.
What is England.
100
What Widge rides upon with the Falconer to get to his new destination.
What are horses?
100
The first parts of a story.
What is the introduction/beginning?
100
Means miserable, and sad.
What is dismal?
200
A tall, mysterious stranger who steals Widge away from his first master.
Who is the Falconer?
200
This is the movement the novel takes place during, which influenced many elements of art and culture.
What is the Renaissance?
200
Where Widge spent the first seven years of his life.
What is an orphanage?
200
The main character of a story.
What is the protagonist?
200
A suspicious person, a bandit.
What is a brigand?
300
The man who purchases Widge from Dr. Bright.
Who is Simon Bass?
300
The major city within England, which Widge dreams of and imagines is a kind of paradise.
What is London?
300
What the brigands who attack the Falconer and Widge on the road want.
What is a purse/money?
300
The "bad guy" in a story, or the person who creates the problems for the main character.
What is the antagonist?
300
A unique occurrence, or something that doesn't happen very often.
What is a novelty?
400
Widge's first master, a doctor who teaches him Latin, English, and an abbreviated language.
Who is Dr. Bright?
400
The buildings that Widge and the Falconer stay in on their journey around the countryside.
What are inns?
400
The city Widge is sent to to record a play of Shakespeare's.
What is London?
400
The part of a story where all of the action comes to a single peak.
What is the climax?
400
To not give up very easily.
What does tenacious mean?
500
A famous playwright, who gave us many words we still use today.
Who is Shakespeare?
500
The century the novel takes place in (remember that centuries are labelled with a number one larger than the numbers they start with).
What is the 16th century?
500
The name of the abbreviated language Dr. Bright teaches Widge.
What is charactery?
500
When the story is told from the narrator's point of view (an example of a sentence: "I went to the store.")
What is first-person view?
500
To be well-dressed, or covered in jewels and trinkets.
What does ornamented mean?
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