Academic Vocabulary
This is a word you should know by now for someone who took a stand to abolish slavery.
What is an abolitionist?
This is the Greek/Latin word for life, as in biosphere.
What is bio?
This president signed in the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Who is Lyndon B Johnson?
The tongue twister, "Sally sells sea shells," uses this poetic element of repetition.
What is alliteration?
This is T-Ray's dog's name.
What is Snout?
This refers to the importance of what was happening during a specific time in history. It can apply to any subject.
What is historical context?
What is script?
This president was assassinated before the story begins in Secret Life of Bees.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
Also acceptable, who is JFK?
A _________ refers to two lines that rhyme.
"So Dawn goes down to day;
Nothing Gold can stay."
What is a couplet?
Lily tells August this phony last name when they first meet.
What is Williams?
"I've told you this a million times" is an example of exaggeration, or this academic way of saying it.
What is hyperbole?
The word minuscule, meaning tiny, contains this Latin root found in many other words.
Segregation laws were also known by this nickname.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
"Nature's first green is gold,
her hardest hue to hold."
The use of "her" makes nature a person, an example of this poetic element.
What is personification?
This is what May liked to have for breakfast every morning.
What is a banana?
"Let's imagine for a moment that we are tiny enough to follow a bee into a hive." --Exploring the World of Social Insects
This passage is an obvious _________ for what is happening in Lily's life at this point in the story.
What is metaphor?
This doctor specializes in feet.
What is a podiatrist?
The first "sit in" protest at a lunch counter occurred in this state. It became an important protest of Jim Crow Laws in the Civil Rights Movement.
What is South Carolina?
One can infer that August has great leadership qualities.
This is an example of __________ ___________.
What is indirect characterization?
This is the name of a "runaway nun."
Who is Beatrix?
This sentence, regardless of the subject, is the key to any essay because it states what the whole essay will be about.
What is a thesis statement?
According to the article we read, "know the root, know _______ ________."
What is, "know many words"?
The Cold War "Space Race" was a time when the first satellites appeared in the sky. This was a time when these two countries were the superpowers.
Who are the US and the USSR (or Russia)?
This poem by Margret Atwood alludes to sea creatures, like in Greek mythology.
What is "Siren Song"?
This is the name of the police officer who drives Rosaleen to jail.
Who is Mr. Avery Gatson, or Mr. Gatson?