Vocab
Original model
What is archetype
someone who is petulant and peevish
What is querulous
An orphan boy who goes to a boarding school, plays a dangerous sport, and fights a noseless wizard.
What is Harry Potter
A direct comparison between two unrelated things
What is a metaphor
courteous and pleasant
What is affable
Illegal goods
What is Contraband
to deny validity
What is repudiate
English schoolboys form rival gangs and beat each other up.
What is Lord of the Flies
An extreme exaggeration used for emphasis
What is hyperbole
a natural proclivity
what is propensity
Persistent and determined
What is sedulous
scholarly or educated
What is erudite
A 12-year-old misfit realizes he is not colorblind and steals a baby to escape the dangers of Communism.
What is the Giver
The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses
What is anaphora
Amplify in greatness
What is aggrandize
Thin or flimsy
What is sleazy
unalterable, cannot be changed
What is irrevocable
A teenage girl beats the government system by dating her rival.
What is The Hunger Games
Putting two opposite words together
What is Oxymoron
Formless, without definite shape
What is amorphous
light and airy
What is gossamer
provincial or narrowminded
What is insular
After refusing to act as a wing-man, a scientist finds his family at the mercy of a serial killer.
What is Frankenstein
A statement that seems to contradict itself but actually reveals a truth
What is a paradox
to argue against someone
What is remostrate