SECOND MARKING PERIOD

Literary Terms:


• Theme: A central idea or statement that unifies and controls and entire literary work.
Tone: The means of creating a relationship or conveying an attitude or mood.
Exposition: The use of authorial discussion to explain or summarize background material rather than revealing this information through gradual narrative detail.
Conflict: The opposition between characters(such as protagonist and antagonist), between two large groups of people, or between the protagonist and a larger problem such as forces of nature, ideas, public mores, and so on.
Point of view: The way a story gets told and who tells it.




Vocabulary Terms:

1. Harried (verb): To harass, annoy, or prove a nuisance to by or as if by repeated attacks; worry

-My normally harried, rushed mother always turns into a strung-out retail junkie just before Turkey Day. (57)

2. Vermilion (noun): A bright red mercuric sulfide used as pigment.

-An unseen hand turned off the radio as he crossed the threshold, and bags of potato chips vanished, leaving the faint scent of salt to mix with vermilion oil paint and wet clay. (78)

3. Obligation (noun): Something by which a person is bound or obliged to do certain things, and which arises out of a sense of duty or results from custom, law, etc.

-It's like a holy obligation, part of what makes her a wife and mother. (58)

4. Oriented (verb): To adjust with relation to, or bring into due to relation to surroundings, circumstances, facts, etc.

-So i said I have a friend who is really artistic and community-oriented and could she help with the posters?"(80)

5. Imperial (adj.): Characterizing the rule or authority of a sovereign state over its dependencies.

-The Marthas have not issued an imperial invitation for her to sit with them.(69)

6.Demented (adj.): Crazy; insane; mad.

-She has a warped sense of humor as well as a demented beautician. (84)