Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Killing Mr. Griffin Vocabulary

1. the act of drawing a conclusion that is not actually stated.

For Example: when Jeff recalls the transformation, Mark underwent when he set the cat on fire - Jeff and the reader infer that Mark enjoys killing.

2. Allusion - whenever a writer refers to a person, place, poem, book, or movie that he expects alluding, indicating inference.

3. Flashback - a scene that interrupts the ongoing action in a story to show an event that happened earlier.

4. Rite of Passage - the young adult must undergo some ritual or test to become an adult.

5. Foil - a character whose qualities or actions usually serve to emphasize the protagonist, by providing a strong contrast. On occasion the foil is used as a contrast to a character other than the main one.

6. Forensics - the study of evidence discovered at a crime scene and used in a court of law. Forensic science is a multidisciplinary subject, drawing principally from chemistry and biology, but also form physics, geology, psychology, social science, etc.

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