a person made weak or disabled by injury or illness
What is invalid?
100
make a person poor
What is impoverished?
100
Time, place, and atmosphere of a story
What is setting?
100
"I'll say what I please," I said.
What is speech? What is bold?
100
I brooded for a long time about the seemingly causeless beating of the "black"boy by the "white" man and the more questions I asked the more bewildering it all became. Whenever I saw "white" people now I stared at them, wondering what they were really like.
What is Race?
200
move swiftly in an uncontrolled way in a specific direction
What is careen?
200
incapable of producing any useful results
What is futile?
200
object that represent a bigger idea or theme of the story
What is symbol?
200
I dropped my head and turned on my heels, my palm and legs on fire, my body taut.
What is looks? What is angry and embarrassed?
200
The tale made the world around me be, throb, live. As she spoke, reality changed, the look of things altered, and the world became people with magical presences.
What is education?
300
about to happen; impending
What is imminent?
300
show of boldness intended to impress or intimidate
What is bravado?
300
method in which an author allows readers to better know and understand the characters
What is characterization?
300
vowing that never again would this happen, no matter what the price
What is thoughts? What is rebellious, determined, angry?
300
When the neighbors offered me food, I refused, already ashamed that so often in my life I had to be fed by strangers.
What is Hunger?
400
showing luminous colors that seem to change from different angles
What is iridescent?
400
showing a deliberate desire to act in a way that is unacceptable in spite of the consequences
What is perverse?
400
new knowledge + background knowledge is used to make this when reading
What is inference?
400
Finally, Uncle Tom's face began to twitch. Tears rolled down his cheeks. His lips trembled.
What is effect on others? What is distant, disconnected, angry, intimidating, lost?
400
While listening to the vivid language of the sermons I was pulled toward emotional belief, but as soon as I went out of the church and say the bright sunshine and felt the throbbing life of the people in the streets I knew that none of it was true and that nothing would happen.
What is religion?
500
endurance of pain without a display of emotions
What is stoicism?
500
distressing to a person's feelings
What is poignantly?
500
detailed descriptions that appeal to one of the five senses
What is imagery?
500
I borrowed money from Mrs. Bibbs, my employer, made a down payment on a pearl-gray suit.
What is actions? What is determined, stubborn, persistant?
500
How had this hate come to be? Noting about the problems of Negroes was ever taught in the classrooms at school; and whenever I would raise these questions with the boys, they would either remain silent or turn the subject into a joke.