Generations Vocabulary

Freedom from outside control

• generation

• independence

• quizzically

• charitable

a group of people of approximately the same age born and living during the same time

• generation

• direct characterization

• philanthropist

• memoir

expressing doubt, confusion, or questioning

• inference

• indirect characterization

• philanthropist

• quizzically

generous and kind to people who are less fortunate

• quizzically

• memoir

• charitable

• indirect characterization

when the narrator tells the audience what the character's personality is

• direct characterization

• generation

• independence

• quizzically

a person who makes effort to do good for others, especially in the form of giving money or doing nice things

• memoir

• philanthropist

• indirect characterization

• generation

a story told in first person that includes the writer's own experiences and memories

• inference

• generation

• quizzically

• memoir

using evidence from a text and your own schema to come to a conclusion about something that is happening in the text

• independence

• charitable

• inference

• philanthropist

when the narrator shows things that reveal the personality of a character

• memoir

• independence

• indirect characterization

• generation