Where the Red Fern Grows Vocabulary

Residential

Designed for people to live in

Squall

A loud cry or noise

Pestering

Trouble or annoy (someone) with frequent or persistent requests or interruptions

Dumbfounded

Greatly astonished or amazed

Caressed

To touch or stroke lightly in a loving or endearing manner

Threadbare

Becoming thin or tattered with age

Querying

To ask questions, especially in order to resolve a doubt

Painstaking

Diligent care and effort, done with great care or thoroughness

Limber

Resilient quality, movable, or flexible

Fad

A practice or interest followed for a time with exaggerated or popular interest

Momentum

Strength or force gained by motion or by a series of events

Begrudgingly

With or despite feelings of resentment or envy

Foliage

A cluster of leaves, flowers, and branches

Monotonous

Dull, tedious, and repetitious; lacking in variety and interest

Supersition

A widely popular but unjustified belief in supernatural beings. The beliefs led to certain consequences of an action or event or practice based on such a belief

Faltered

Start to lose strength or momentum.

Lull

To cause sleep, relax, or rest

Unconscious

Having lost consciousness; unaware

Entrails

The inner workings of something

Feeble

Lacking physical strength, especially as a result of age or illness

Irony

The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning

Foreshadowing

A narrative device that hints at coming events; often builds suspense or anxiety in the reader

Imagery

A literary devices that appeals to the senses, creating vivid pictures in the reader's mind

Symbolism

uses symbols to represent ideas or qualities

Flashback

A literary device that interrupts the chronological flow of a narrative to present events that occurred at an earlier time, providing background or context to the story