1. Vocabulary and literary terms
By Sam Tofighi
Spring 2012
Mrs. Foppiano

2. Introduction:
Vocabulary and literary terms which are going to be mentioned in the story.
Pictures and example to understand them better.

3. vocabulary

4. Swamper Definition: a person that lives or is familiar with swamps.
Ex. John Smith was the swamper that worked cleaning Jack Robert’s swamp.

5. Stable Buck
Definition: Stable buck is a black man who works in a stable.
Ex. Stable bucks were common in 1900’s when there were lots of slaves.

6. Skinner
Definition: a person who drives draft animals such as mules or oxen.
Ex. In the desserts of Brazil there are many skinners.

7. Migrant
Definition: a person or animal that change its location for more advantages, such as climate or work place.
Ex. Ducks are migrating birds.

8. Bindle
Definition: a bindle, usually of bending and other possessions, normal carried by a hobo.
Ex. He left home only with a bindle.

9. “Dust bowl”
Definition: a region subject to dust storms; specially the central region of united states subjects to the storms in the 1930’s.
Ex. The capital dust bowl of the world is Dallas, Texas.

10. Recession
Definition: when the economic situation of a country enters for several months a decline ratio of two consecutive quarters of growth in its GDP (gross domestic products).
Ex. In 2008 USA had a recession in its economy.

11. Depression
Definition: economic depression is a severe downturn that lasts several years.
Ex. Spain suffered a great depression when it lost the American colonies.

12. Reluctantly Definition: unwilling, struggling in opposition.
Ex. A reluctant husband.

13. Derogatory Definition: critical or disrespectful.
Ex. A derogatory letter of recommendation to Hitler.

14. Concealing
Definition: to keep secret, hide, withdraw or remove from observation.
Ex. People conceal secrets from whom they don’t trust.

15. Persuasive
Definition: good at persuading someone to do or believe something.
Providing evidence or reasoning that makes you believe something.
Ex. Lawyers are persuasive.

16. Consoled Definition: to have reduced your disappointment.
Ex. When your sad and your parents talk to you, you feel consoled.

17. Belligerently Definition: a character or country warlike.
Ex. Tomas looked at David belligerently.

18. Literary terms

19. Setting
Definition: the setting of the story is the time, space and environment in which a story takes place.
Ex. The setting of Lord of the Rings is middle earth.

20. Characterization (Direct and Indirect)
Definition: the creation of the image of imaginary persons in literary works.
Ex. The authors' characterization was well adjusted in the story.

21. Imagery
Definition: the forming of mental images or figures with interaction of other senses.
Ex. While reading a good book, we tend to have imagery of characters.

22. Theme
Definition: a comment thread or repeated idea that is incorporated throughout the literary work. The author uses character, plot and other literary devices to set the main idea of the story.
Ex. The theme of Titanic is love.

23. Mood Definition: the way you feel at a particular time.
Ex. I was in a very bad mood yesterday because of the match I lost.

24. Simile
Definition: a word or phrase that compares one thing to another of a different kind.

25. Symbolism
Definition: the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.
Ex. Symbolism is used a lot in chatting.

26. Tragic hero
Definition: very sad. relating to tragedy in literary work.
Ex. The tragic hero in spider man is Sam.

27. Thank you for listening… The End