Definitions

1. Character-A person or someone that is involved in the story
2. Conflict-Problem
-Internal:Problem that happen inside
-External: Problem happen outside
3. Foreshadow: To predict or clues to predict
4. Mood: Feeling Created in the reader
5. Antagonist: Person that fights with the protagonist
6. Protagonist: Main character
7. Setting: Time and place for the action
8. Symbol: Object that represents something else
9. Theme: The main idea, central message, concern

Examples Crispin 25~28
Vocabulary for Crispin 25/26
Railed: scolded very harshly
I was railed when I couldn't finish my task.
Bluster: talk or act with noisy swaggering threats
The loud blusters made me awake during my bed time.
Aloft: at great height
The Empire State Building stood aloft as it stood proudly tall.
League: associations of groups
The league was filled with scrubs and rising stars.
Morrow: next day
Vocabulary for Crispin 27/28
Lope: an easy natural gait of a horse resembling a canter
The lope was thick enough to grasp it
Emblazoned: to inscribe or adorn with or as if with heraldic bearings or devices
Monotony: sameness in tone
People dislike the monotonous personality because that just seems dull.
Cunning: Sly
Answer the following questions about chapter 25-28 using complete sentences.
1. Give an example of at least one symbol from chapter 25. Explain your choice. The symbol from chapter 25 is hope because Crispin isn’t abandoned from Bear.
2. What is the mood of chapter 25. Explain. The mood for chapter 25 is easiness because we are getting to know the softer part of Bear and how they can bond together well.
3. What does Crispin learn about Bearʼs nature in chapter 26? He learns that Bear isn’t a scary or serious person as the person he knows but has also the rough kindness.
4. What does Crispin pray to St. Giles for at the end of chapter 26? He prays to St. Giles in order for Bear not to betray him.
5. What did the actions of the bird symbolize to Bear in chapter 27? The pigeons symbolize that another character is coming and is kind of like foreshadowing.
6. Give an example of internal conflict in chapter 27. Explain your answer. The internal conflict that Crispin faced was when he saw steward and his men that were trying to find him. He felt nervous and quite guilty because he might be discovered.
7. What do you predict that Bear will reveal about the information Crispin gave him about Asta and what she has written on the cross? I think Bear will tell him the secret later when it is much of a safe situation for him.
8. What is the setting for chapter 28? The setting is in Middle Ages, in the forest at England.
9. What is the theme for chapter 25-28? The themes for the 4 chapters are how they try to conceal themselves from being discovered.

53+54 Homework
March 7th 2010
Chapter 53

Characters: Crispin, John Ball, four of Ball’s men
Setting: During the Medieval Period, In England’s Great Wexly at night (road, White Stag Tavern)
Motivation: Crispin had the motivation to save Bear after he was captured by the palace’s guards.
Chapter 54
Personification: (Page 263)
Opposite, at the other side of the square, the great church rose up in all its all majesty, its stained-glass windows glowing faintly like the embers of a smoldering fire.
Flashback: (Page 265)
Then I recalled seeing John Aycliffe on the balcony.
Simile: (Page 266)
Straining every bit of the way, I could climb the walls like a spider.