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Final Exam Review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| theme | life lesson or moral of a story. |
| protagonist | main character/hero in a story. |
| antagonist | villain or evil force. |
| mood | the feelings associated with a piece of literature. |
| chronological order | events told in the order in which they happened. |
| myth | a traditional story that is passed own by people to explain how something in the world came to be. |
| suspense | a feeling of growing tension that builds as a story gets more exciting. |
| foreshadowing | hints or clues an author may give that reveal future events. |
| metaphor | a comparison of two things that does not use like or as. |
| Todd Amos | an older boy who trotted Bud and even shoved a pencil up his nose |
| "Bugs" | Bud's best friend who hooped on a train headed west. |
| Deza Malone | Bud' s first kiss |
| Lefty Lewis | picked Bud up on the side of the road and brought him to meet his "father" |
| Herman E. Calloway | a bandleader who turns out to be Bud's grandfather |
| dystopia | a seemingly perfect, controlled society where people are often controlled and may feel threatened. |
| Jonas' Assignment | Receiver of Memory |
| Elsewhere | anywhere outside the boundary of the Community |
| Gabriel | a young child who also has the ability to "receive" and flees the Community with Jonas. |
| The Stirrings | emotional feelings that are not to be felt in the Community and are treated with a pill |
| Release | a punishment for wrongdoing that seems to mean death |
| Huck Finn | the envy of all the boys, but yet hated by all the moms. |
| Joe Harper | Tom's "bosom" friend |
| Becky Thatcher | blonde-haired blue eyed girl who Tom falls for |
| Injun Joe | believed to have killed 5 citizens, including Dr. Robinson |
| Widow Douglas | saved from harm by Huck and the Welshman. Agrees to take Huck in and adopt him. |
| Muff Potter | farmed for the murder but set free after Tom testifies |
| Dr. Robinson | paid men to help him obtain a body from the graveyard for medical purposes. |
| Sid | tattle-tale half brother |
| Aunt Polly | Tom's guardian who cares for him very much |
| Jackson's Island | place where the boys ended up after running away |
| McDougal's Cave | site of Injun Joe's death |
| flashback | a technique used by an author to go back in time and reveal an earlier event that somehow connects with what is going on presently. |
| dynamic character | a character who undergoes great change from the beginning of the story to the end. |
| stanza | a group of lines in poetry |
| personification | giving human qualities to non-living objects or ideas |
| static character | a character who stays the same throughout a book or story |
| point of view | the perspective from which a story is told |
| characterization | the way an author creates the personality and traits of his her characters. |
| flashback | a conversation, episode, or vent that happened before the beginning of a story. |
| whitewashing | Tom's punishment for skipping school and lying about it. |
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