Vocabulary by Selection

ORDER OF SELECTIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS MAY CHANGE.

TITLE                                                                      VOCABULARY                                    LITERARY TERMS

Checkouts	brazen, deftly, fetish, impulse, intuition, lapse, meditation, perverse, reverie, tedious	character motivations and reactions, major and minor characters, predictions
Raymond’s Run	clutch, periscope, prodigy, relay, sidekick (additional list of slang terms related to story)	plot, exposition, rising action,conflicts, complications, falling action, climax, cause and effect
Stop the Sun	chant, dry, founder, inert, persist, syndrome, mortars, Vietcong, charlie	theme, main character, connections,cause and effect in plot, recurring themes across works
Mother in Manville	abstracted, blunt, clarify, communion, ecstacy, impel,  inadequate, instinctive, kindling, predicated, hemlocks,laurel, subterfuge, anomalous	setting(reveals character, affects plot and character), visualizing, descriptions, theme, inference
The Ransom of Red Chief	collaborate, commend, comply, diatribe, impudent, palatable, pervade, proposition, ransom, surreptitiously, apparition, undeleterious, bas-relief, decry, cauterized	irony(situational, verbal),  predictions, character motivations, setting
Born Worker	FCAT INDEPENDENT READING
Rain, Rain, Go Away	affectation, console, interminably, semblance, barometer, roil, celestial	science fiction, drawing conclusions, inference, setting
The Dinner Party	arresting, naturalist, rafter, sober, spirited, attaché, verandah, rupee	suspense, stereotyping
A Running Brook of Horror	INDEPENDENT ASSIGNMENT
The Lady or the Tiger	assert, decree,destiny, doleful, exuberant, imperious, procure, retribution, subordinate, valor, tribunal,courtiers, damsels	surprise ending, draw conclusions, character motivation
Future Tense	INDEPENDENT ASSIGNMENT
The  Tell-Tale Heart	acute, audacity, conceived, crevice, derision, hypocritical, stealthily, stifled, vehemently, vex, dissimulation, sagacity,waned, scantlings, suavity, reposed, gesticulations, dissemble	mood, tone, visualizing, suspense, internal conflict
The Hitchhiker	accelerator, assurance, lark, nondescript, sinister,phosphorescent	radio play, predictions, drama, foreshadowing, mood, setting, tone
The Third Wish	extricate, malicious,outskirts, preening, presumptuous, verge, primrose,	plot, exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, external and internal conflict, character motivation and reaction
The Monkey’s Paw	credulity, fate, grimace, peril, surveying, amiably, bog, torrent, condoling, rubicund, doughty, talisman, simian, prosaic, virtues, avaricious	plot, rising action, suspense, climax, setting and mood, character motivation and reaction, climax and resolution
Flowers for Algernon	absurd, hypothesis, impair, introspective, naivete, opportunist, proportional, regression, sensation, shrew, specialization, statistically, syndrome, tangible, vacuous	characterization, inference, setting, plot complications, conflict, theme
Ballad of the  Harp Weaver (Poetry)		ballad, narrative poems, alliteration, poetic form, plot complications within the ballad,
The Choice (Poetry)		speaker, narrator, form, verse, rhyme
Identity (Poetry)	abyss, shun	symbol, visualizing, images, metaphor, repetition
I’m Making a List (Poetry)		form, irony, free verse, speaker’s point of view
The Lesson of the Moth (Poetry)	immolated, longevity	speaker, conflict, theme, poetic form, imagery
Mother to Son (Poetry)		Dialect, form, symbol, metaphor, structure, free verse, speaker, imagery
O Captain! My Captain!(Poetry)	rack, exulting, keel, vessel, grim, trills, mournful	extended metaphor, symbol, speaker, rhythm, rhyme, verse, form
We Alone (Poetry)		symbol, imagery
Success (Poetry)	affection, appreciation,redeemed	theme, message
A Journey(Poetry)	exuberant, compelled, groping,	free verse, content, imagery, message, theme
Knoxville, Tennessee(Poetry)		form, stanza, speaker, imagery, style
Legacies(Poetry)		lyric poetry,author’s purpose, writer’s style, signal words, signal phrases, dialect
the drum (poetry)		free verse, imagery, metaphor
Choices (poetry)		style, purpose, lyric poem
The Diary of Anne Frank (Drama)	appalled, conspicuous, disgruntled, foreboding, inarticulate, indignantly, jubilation, loathe, oppression, ostentatiously, pandemonium, remorse, vile, wallow, zeal	plot, exposition, conflicts, rising action, climax, resolution, flashback, story mapping, subplot, stage directions, character development, inferences, irony
The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank	Rennaissance, expatriates, quarantined	Interview, text organization, inference
All But My Life	charred, SS,contingent, garbed	autobiography, conflict, characterization, influence of author’s background, compare
Rules of the Game	adversary, benefactor, benevolently, circumstance, impart, malodorous, ponder, pungent, recessed, retort	conflict, external, internal, setting, mood, tone, meaning, characterization, cultural influence
Strawberries	grief, despair,aroma, desolation	explanatory tale, character, conflict, imagery
Aunty Misery	pilgrim, sorcerer,taunt, catacomb	Character, personification, conflict, irony, draw conclusions
The Souls in Purgatory	purgatory, comadre, retablo,hanks, tia,palomita, donas, brindes, sala	word choice, simile, character,
The Woman in The Snow	INDEPENDENT RESEARCH PROJECT
The Girl in the Lavender Dress	INDEPENDENT  ASSIGNMENT

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