| Term | Definition |
|---|
| ambush | a secret plan of capture or attack |
| complicated | hard to understand or deal with |
| hesitate | to pause |
| peril | danger |
| ponder | to think about carefully |
| setting | time and/or place in a story |
| character | people in the story |
| plot events | what happens in the story |
| theme | the author's message, what we are supposed to learn |
| site | a place |
| reality | what is truly happening |
| certainly | without any doubt |
| redundant | saying the same thing over and over |
| inscribe | to cut or carve words or letters on something |
| mood | general feeling that an author creates |
| symbol | something that has meaning on its own but also stands for something else |
| peer | to look hard at something that's difficult to see |
| imagery | descriptive words to create pictures in the readers mind |
| narrator | the person telling the story |
| literature response | reader relating a story to their own life |
| monogram | initials stitched into cloth |
| commemorate | remember and honor |
| bank | side of a river where the land meets the water |
| dew | moisture left on grass and items outdoors in the early AM |
| unfurled | not rolled up |
| awnings | cloth coverings over doorways and windows |
| shriek | scream |
| concocted | created or made |
| boughs | branches |
| ancient | old |
| stanza | a "paragraph" in a poem |
| parody | a take off on something well known- ex.Halloween Carols, Scary Movie 2 |
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