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English3 Exam Vocab

TermDefinition
Allusion A reference to another work of literature, person, or event.
Rhetoric The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing.
Anaphora The repeating of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.
Parallelism Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses.
Sensory Details Words and phrases that create imagery by using the 5 senses.
Analogy A comparison between two or more things.
Complacency Self-Satisfaction
Ethos Creditability
Pathos Emotions
Logos Logic
Rill Foss One of the main characters. She was oldest of the Foss children and was brought to the Tennessee Children’s Home.
Camellia Foss One of the older Foss children, and was killed in the Tennessee Children’s Home.
Avery Stafford She is a main protagonist of the novel, a lawyer trying to figure out who her grandmother really is.
Wells Stafford Avery’s father, a senator, who has cancer
Trent Turner Avery’s secret love interest
May Crandall Rill Foss’s older self
Georgia Tann Owner of the Tennessee Children’s Home
Mrs. Murphy Caretaker at the Tennessee Children’s Home.
Queenie Foss Children’s mother, dies after childbirth
Judy Stafford Avery’s grandmother who has dementia. She is in a nursing home called the Magnolia Manor.
Elliot Avery’s RUDE Fiancé
Silas Foss Family friend, Rill Foss’s love interest??
Lisa Wingate Author of “Before We Were Yours”
Martin Luther King Jr. U.S. Baptist minister and civil rights leader. A noted orator, he opposed discrimination against blacks by organizing nonviolent resistance and peaceful mass demonstrations. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. Nobel Peace Prize (1964)
Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865)
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