AWIT Vocabulary
This is a more sophisticated word for danger
peril/possibly, trepidation
This is the setting in the first Chapter "A dark and stormy night...."
Meg's bedroom/The Murray Residence/Earth
This is the first Mrs. to visit the Murrays at their home.
Mrs. Whatsit
When people do NOT take a number and wait their turn for a service in Sweden, it is an example of this.
Taboo
Who is the author of AWIT
Madeleine L'Engle
This is a better adjective for being able to persuade or influence.
impressionable
This is where the kids rode a shape-shifted, Mrs. Whatsit's "marble white body with powerful flanks, something like a horse.....resembling the head of a man.
Uriel
We first visit Mrs. Who in this place.
A dilapidated, haunted house located in the forest.
A Four-leaf-clover is an good luck charm, also called this.
talisman
Setting: What are the the four planets that AWIT takes place on?
Earth, Uriel, Camazotz, and Ixchel
This noun is the act of showing strength to resist opposition, danger, hardship; resilience
tenacity
This dimension was accidentally tessered to where the kids were "as though they were completely flattened out by an enormous steam roller" and referred to as "paper dolls (90)
2nd dimension
This character asks Meg about her father and lectures her about both her behavior and academics
Mr. Jenkins
"A piece of cake" means something is super easy (like this question) is an example of this.
idiom
What exactly is IT? (Hint: at least two words are required)
A disembodied brain.
this is an adverb for doing something in a calm, peaceful, quiet manner; showing a gentle nature
placidly
This is what a stranger who looks similar to everyone else on Camazots tells the kids that he must do the kids who are not conforming to the rules (129).
report them=put through the Process machine.
The Happy Medium shows Calvin and Meg their moms in a crystal ball and she wears this on her head.
turban
This is the definition of conformity.
When rules and standards are followed as expected by a particular society like on Camazotz, in Torrance, or anywhere.
What figurative device is "An unhinged shutter thumped and creaked" (page 41)
onomatopoeia
This is the state of anger as a result of unfairness
indignation
Aunt Beast uses these to communicate and help Meg recover from a difficult, painful tesser to their planet AND has these where its face should be (191).
tentacles and indentations.
We meet The Man with the Red Eyes at this place.
The CENTRAL Central Intelligence Building on Camazots.
The fact that Mrs. Whatsit gives Meg her greatest faults: anger, impatience, and stubbornness to battle IT, is an example of which figurative device.
Irony
How old was Madeleine L'Engle when she began to write?
5 years old