Vocab Quiz from The Book of Unknown Americans

This is how literature is put together.

• structure

• concrete

• framing

• architecture

You are doing this when you remember events from the past.

• confer

• thinking

• reminisce

• remembering

______________ is to state something positively, so as to remove doubt about it.

• help

• praise

• complement

• assure

This is what the author is trying to convey to the reader.

• counterargument

• persuade

• author's purpose

• theme

Details that ________________ convey, or imply what a character believes about life.

• implicitly

• explicit

• convene

• melodrama

To cause serious damage or destruction.

• shred

• break

• ravage

• destroy

This is another word for problem.

• ravage

• conflict

• argument

• disagreement

Characters' ideas about life or people.

• explicit

• implicit

• infer

• theme

Behavior characterized by exaggerated emotions.

• drama

• melodrama

• fighting

• arguing

This is a fit of frustration or excitement.

• hatred

• anger

• froth

• worked up