Great Books: Alice Vocab and Character Assignment

In case you missed it, here is the vocab and character assignments from the Alice Unit.

Vocabulary: Keep Definitions in your notebook, a quiz will be given at the end of the novel.

1. Genre - A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.
2. Anthropomorphism - The attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object.
3. Allegory - A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.
4. Parody - An imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.
5. Rhythm - A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound.
6. Rhyme - Correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, esp. when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.
7. Pun - A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings.
8. Ubiquitous - Present, appearing, or found everywhere
9. Disingenuous - Not candid or sincere, typically by pretending that one knows less about something than one really does.
10. Pervasive - Spreading widely throughout an area or a group of people.

Characters: Character descriptions and analysis are due at the end of the unit and should have one paragraph for each character.

1. Alice
2. The White Rabbit
3. The Queen of Hearts
4. The Cheshire Cat
5. The Duchess 
6. The Mad Hatter

For your character analysis, consider the following questions:

Is the character well rounded? What motivates the characters actions? What are the items associated with the character, are they symbols of something greater? How does the character effect other characters in the book? Ect.