Vocab & Lit Terms
Comparing two items using like or as
What is a simile?
A robbery and murder that Steve Harmon is accused of participating in
What is the crime?
Buck’s original owner in California
Who is Judge Miller?
The author of “The Tell-Tale Heart”
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
The Italian city where Romeo and Juliet live
What is Verona?
Hints or clues about future events DOUBLE JEOPARDY
What is foreshadowing?
The format Steve uses to tell much of his story
What is a screenplay or movie script?
The cold northern region where Buck is taken
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What is the Yukon or Klondike?
The two best friends who fight each other in “Amigo Brothers”
Who are Antonio and Felix?
Romeo’s family name
What is Montague?
The message or lesson of a story
What is Theme?
The word Steve uses to describe himself in his journal
What is a monster?
The harsh survival lesson Buck learns from the man in the red sweater
What is The Law of the Club?
The feeling the narrator struggles with after committing murder in “The Tell-Tale Heart”
What is GUILT?
The man Juliet is expected to marry
Who is Paris?
A narrator who cannot fully be trusted
What is an unreliable narrator?
Steve Harmon’s defense attorney
Who is Kathy O'Brien?
Buck's rival sled dog
Who is Spitz?
What Amy Tan learns to appreciate by the end of “Fish Cheeks”
What is her culture and identity?
A poem of fourteen lines, with three quatrains and a couplet at the end, following a specific pattern
What is a Sonnet?
A struggle between opposing forces
What is conflict?
What Steve fears the jury believes he is
What is a criminal or monster?
The powerful, primitive creature Buck becomes by the end of the novel
Who is The Dominant Primordial Beast?
The type of conflict most common in the short stories studied this year
What is Character Vs. Self?
The family feuds with the Montagues
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Who are The Capulets?