Vocabulary Victors
An indirect comparison using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
A brother who tells his father that his friend has run away from home
Who is Jem?
An arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem
What is meter?
The E in ICE
What is explain?
The literary device of comparison, without using "like" or "as," which Scout uses in: "One does not love breathing" (18).
What is a metaphor?
A narrator's unique perspective
What is point of view?
The character trait that the primary symbol in TKAM, a mockingbird, represents
What is innocence?
In what location did Emily Dickinson spend much of her adult life?
The background knowledge that SOAPSTone gives
What is context?
The term for the information in parentheses at the end of a quote, which gives the page and/or line number to cite a source
What is an in-text citation?
A reference in a text to history and other works
What is an allusion?
The Finch's neighbor whose house burns down, who does not go to Tom's trial, and who does not have as strict a view of religion as other women
Who is Miss Maudie Atkinson?
What is make a decision?
How long has Ms. Lauren worked at the SAE?
What is 1 year?
The definition, grammatical length, and persuasive aspect of a strong theme (3 parts)
What are a message, 1 sentence, and argument?
The beginning of the story that introduces characters, setting, plot, and mood, and which may indicate a theme
What is the exposition?
The character trait of Boo Radley that causes Heck not to bring him to trial
What is shyness?
A type of foot in poetry that has 1 unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
What is an iamb?
The number of paragraphs in the essay, the last question on the final
What is 4?
The term for seamlessly adding a quote into a sentence that you begin
What is integration?
Indicating what will occur later in a story or that a current part of a story will have significant implications later on
What is foreshadowing?
The universal sign of guilt that Tom Robinson chooses instead of resisting Mayella Ewell
What is running?
A particular arrangement of poetry's pattern or rhythmic lines or verses, depending on the kind or number of feet and/or rhythm
What is meter?
In a debate, the opposing team's point and your team's response
What are counterargument and rebuttal?
What writers analyze in reasoning A and connect to in reasoning B
What are a literary device and theme?