Lie Tree & Grammar Literary Glossary

Vocabulary flashcards covering literary glossary terms, grammar rules, and novel details for The Lie Tree review.

Dictation

Word choice.

Metaphor

Comparison between two things.

Sensory Appeals

Words that simulate a physical sense.

Appeal to Sight

Image.

Appeal to Smell

Olfactory.

Appeal to Touch

Tactile.

Appeal to Taste

Gustatory.

Appeal to Hearing

Aural.

Setting

The time, location, and or social world (milieu) of a book.

Simile

Comparison using like or as.

Tone

Mood.

Author of The Lie Tree

Frances Hardinge.

Publication Year of The Lie Tree

2015.

Setting of The Lie Tree

1860's in Britain's part of the Victorian period (reign of Queen Victoria) on a fictitious channel island by England and France.

Macro-Genre

Drama/ poetry prose.

Genre of The Lie Tree

Bildungsroman novel in which an adolescent protagonist takes significant steps toward maturity.

Themes of The Lie Tree

1. Conflict of parent and adolescent child, 2. Struggle of gifted person who is not able to exercise his or her right, 3. Adaptations to/ struggle of women in patriarchal setting.

Complete Sentence

An independent clause that has a subject (noun or noun substitute, like a pronoun) & a predicate (conjugated verb).

Fragment

A piece of a whole sentence, missing subject or predicate or both.

A WHITE BUS

A mnemonic acronym for subordinating words: A (although, as, after), B (because, before), W (who, which, while), H (how), I (if), T (though, that), E (even though, even as), U (until, unless), S (since, so that).