| A | B |
|---|
| gaunt | thin and boney(hint:mummy) |
| fugitive | runaway |
| sullen | bad mood,gloomy |
| burrow | animal hole |
| calalmity | misfortune |
| consolation | comfort |
| cower | crouch in fear |
| exotic | foreign |
| fancy | imagine |
| plumage | feathers |
| hoard | save |
| hostile | unfriendly |
| incessant | continuous |
| irridescent | shimmering |
| rapturous | great joy |
| amble | gait of a horse |
| azure | sky blue |
| daft | silly |
| dour | bitter,cranky |
| exclusive | not shared |
| inherent | essential quality |
| initiation | beginning,admission |
| malady | illness |
| purchase | a firm hold |
| sarcastic | sneering |
| spectacle | noteworthy |
| obstreperous | noisy |
| valiant | brave |
| veranda | porch |
| plot | a series of events |
| setting | time and place |
| characterization | method used to create a fictitious character |
| conflict | opposing forces; a conflict |
| climax | turning point |
| theme | underlying meaning |
| point of view | the angle from which an account is told |
| fiction | a story about imagined people and events |
| biography | a story of a real person's life |
| autobiography | when somebody writes about their own life |
| narrator | the person telling the story |
| protagonist | "the good guy" |
| antagonist | "the bad guy" |
| flashback | an interruption in the story about something that happened earlier |
| foreshadow | hint of something to come |
| irony | what happened and what appears to be |
| inference | something not clearly stated |
| imagery | concrete words that relate to the 5 senses |
| mood | atmosphere or feeling |
| personification | human characteristics are given to non-human objects |
| simile | comparison using "like" or "as" |
| metaphor | a comparison w/o Like or As |
| idiom | "it's raining cats and dogs" |
| alliteration | "Sally sells seashells" |
| onomatopoeia | BUZZ!!!!!! HISS!!! |
