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| allusion | references made, or alluded to, in literature of famous people, places, or things |
| end rhyme | words that rhyme at the end of lines of poetry |
| alliteration | beginning words with repeated consonant sounds |
| personification | giving human-like characteristics to non-human things |
| metaphor | comparison made without using like or as |
| analogy | a comparison made between two seemingly unlike people, places, or things |
| simile | comparison made using like or as |
| irony | situations or speech that is opposite of what is meant or intended |
| internal rhyme | words rhyming in the middle of lines of poetry |
| Mildred Taylor | author of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry |
| Cassie Logan | the narrator in Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry |
| Stacey Logan | the older brother in the story |
| T. J. Avery | the main antagonist in the story causing most of the trouble |
| Mr. Morrison | Papa Logan's friend from the railroad |
| David Logan | the head of the Logan family |
| Mary Logan | She was a school teacher |
| Uncle Hammer | This was David Logan's brother |
| The Wallace Family | They owned the only store in town |
| Lillian Jean Simms | She forced Cassie to apologize |
| R. W. and Melvin Simms | They murdered Jim Barnett and blamed T. J. |
| Mr. Jamison | The lawyer friend of the Logan family |
| The Grangers | They own over 6,000 square acres of land |
| Big Ma | the grandmother, Caroline |
| Little Man | hated to get dirty |
| The Depression of the 1930's | the setting of the story |
| The Land | this is what made the Logan family independent |
| The Secret | no one must ever know that Papa Logan burned his own cotton |
| riveted | to be amazed, to cause to stop or stand still |
| admonished | to be scolded or gotten on to |
| feigned | to pretend or fake an illness, injury or feelings |
| Walt Whitman | wrote "O Captain, My Captain" |
| U. S. A. | ship is a metaphor for |
| Abe Lincoln, President of U. S. A. | Captain is a metaphor for |
| why Lincoln's death is described as being ironic | he never saw the result of all his hard work in bringing the country through the Civil War |
| elegy | a poem written to honor the dead |
| the poem, "O Captain, My Captain" is a tribute to | Abe Lincoln |
| "The prize we sought is won" | metaphor for ending Civil War and reuniting North and South into one united country |
| Abe Lincoln's death | historical event that inspired the writing of the poem, "O Captain, My Captain" |
