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English 9 Weeks- KB
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Aversion | Extreme repugnance accompanied by avoidance; disgust |
| Doughtier | stronger; more courageous |
| Varmint | One who is undesirable, trouble, or obnoxious. |
| Bustle | Exited and noisy activity |
| Grimace | Twisting of the face that expresses pain or disgust. |
| Ominous | menacing; threatening |
| Disposition | one's unusual mood; temperance |
| Desolate | barren and lifeless |
| Ostentation | boastful display to impress others; showiness |
| Sullen | bad-tempered and sulky; gloomy |
| Debased | lowered in character, quality, or value, degraded |
| Derision | ridicule; mockery |
| Encumbrances | burdens or obstacles |
| Odious | extremely unpleasant; repulsive |
| Stealthy | acting with secretary to avoid notice |
| Alacrity | speed or quickness |
| Berating | angrily or scolding or criticizing |
| Sinister | suggesting pr threatening evil |
| Covet | to want something that belongs to another |
| Discern | to recognize or comprehend mentally |
| Valor | courage and boldness; bravery |
| Incredulity | state of disbelief |
| Bleakly | gloomily; cheerlessly |
| Volition | a conscious choice or decision |
| Formidable | arousing fear, dread, or alarm |
| Condone | to accept and allow a behavior to continue |
| Deterred | prevented or discouraged from acting |
| Solace | comfort in trouble |
| insidious | extended to entrap; treacherous |
| Repetition | the repeating of a sound, word, phrase, or line, to emphasize something in a poem |
| Alliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words |
| Onomatopoeia | words that imitate sounds |
| Imagery | language that appeals to the five senses and helps the reader create a picture in his or her mind. |
| Figurative Language | Language not meant to be taken literally |
| Simile | comparing two or more things using like or as |
| Metaphor | comparing two things with out using like or as |
| Personification | giving an inhuman object human characteristics |
| Hyperpole | when the truth is exaggerated for emphasis or humorous effect. |
| Assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds with non-rhyming words. |
| Form | the structure of the poem and how it is arranged |
| Speaker | the voice in a poem that talks to the reader. |
| Stanza | a group of lines in a poem |
| Rhythm | a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. |
| Rhyme | the repetition of sounds at the ends of words. |
| Rhyme Scheme | repeating pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| Voice | the writers unique choice of language that allows the writer to hear a human personality. |
| Free Verse | a poem that does not follow a set of rules. |
| Mood | a feeling or emotion created by the meaning and rhythm of words |
| **TLITF What is the rising action? | True Son's relationship with Gordie; True Son and Half Arrow's attack and scalping of Uncle Wilse; True Son's acceptance to join the Indian war party; True Son's confrontation w/ his father and Thitpan concerning the scalped white girl; True Son's dream |
| What is the climax of the story? | When True Son betrays the Indians by telling the white people it was an ambush. |
| What is an example of irony? | When True Son likes to sleep in the Indian homes better than the richer white people's homes. |
| What is the falling action? | falling action · The rest of the war party votes on whether to burn True Son for being a traitor; Cuyloga saves his son from death but takes him to a place where they must part forever; True Son cries out in despair at the loss of his father. |
| What is the resolution? | Cuyloga decides that True Son will no longer be part of the Indian family. The two split up. True Son asks Cuyloga if they could say goodbye, but Cuyloga says enemies don't say goodbye. |
| What is the point of view? | 3rd person shifting |
| What is the theme? | Don't let prejudices influence, we are all good and evil at times. |
| What is the hook of the story? | All the white captives are forced to go back with the whites. When True Son blackens his face and hides in a tree. |
| What is the exposition? | True Son is a 15-year old boy who was kidnapped when he was 4. He finds out he is going to have to leave the indians. |
| What are the conflicts of this story? | True Son's fight against the restrictive, suffocating customs of his white family. Also, True Son's internal struggle to find true identity in the face of conflicting loyalties to his Indian family and his white brother Gordie. |
| What is some symbolism in the story? | Gordie- innocence, White Clothes- the white family |
| What is an example of foreshadowing? | True Son's Dream |
| True Son | The protagonist of the story, True Son, or John Cameron Butler, is a fifteen-year-old white boy who has been raised by a tribe of Delaware Indians for the past eleven years of his life. Stubborn; opinionated. |
| Cuyloga | As True Son's Indian father and idol, Cuyloga represents the ideal image of the noble Indian warrior. He is a firm believer in the principles of loyalty, courage, and stoicism. he is the very opposite of whites. |
| Del Hardy | As one of the white soldiers who returns True Son and the other white prisoners to Paxton township, Del strongly believes in the superiority of white civilization and admires his military leader, Colonel Bouquet. |
| Half Arrow | True Son's light-hearted Indian cousin, Half Arrow, is his most devoted and loving friend. A young boy who loves to laugh, Half Arrow is at times overconfident or naïve about his abilities to outmaneuver the enemy whites. |
| Harry Butler | True Son's white father is viewed by True Son as the exact opposite of Cuyloga: weak, pale, and insignificant. In actuality, however, Harry Butler has been strong enough to endure the extraordinary guilt and sorrow he has felt ever since T.S. was taken. |
| Myra Butler | T.S.'s white mother. She has been an invalid ever since he was stolen from their family. Like Harry Butler, Myra loves T.S. very much and has experienced guilt since his disappearance. She wants to believe that T.S. will give up his Indian culture. |
| Gordie | Innocent child who doesn't understand the situation. T.S.'s naïve younger brother. Gordie seems unaware that T.S.'s actions or behavior is different from whites'. Gordie looks up to his older brother and tries to defend him against their relatives. |
| Aunt Kate | True Son's strong-willed and opinionated white aunt very much disapproves of his Indian behavior. She is very outspoken about her feelings of mistrust and anger for the boy. |
| Uncle Wilse | radical white supremacist and leader of the infamous Paxton boys. Wilse is True Son's large-set and powerful uncle, who believes strongly in the extermination of the Indian race. |
| Parson Elder | He is one of the most respected and accomplished citizens of Paxton Township. He has worked as a colonel and farmer, and has been the village pastor. Although he believes in Christians, he understands the complex situation between whites and Indians. |
| Uncle George | a skinny man who considers Indians devils. |
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