Definition: a representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning through concrete or material forms; figurative treatment of one subject under the guise of another.

Example: "Allegry of the cave" Allegory of the cave. Plato

Explanation: This whole piece is an allegory.

Definition: a critical or explanatory note or body of notes added to a text.

Defintion: the commencement of two or more words of a word group with the same letter, as in apt alliteration's artful aid.

Example: "sunny self-confident self" (pg. 123) Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehreich

Explanation: what she wants people to see her as. 

Definition: a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication

Example: "Teddy- was ever ready to raise cain" (pg. 13). Textbook

Explanation: Biblical illusion comparing cain to teddy.

Definition: repetition in the first part of a clause or sentence of a prominent word from the latter part of the preceding clause or sentence, usually with a change or extension of meaning.

Example: "when i give  give myself" (104) Outliers Malcom Gladwel

Explanation: "I give" is repeated

Definition: a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based

Example: "Take what I can use n the rest go" (12). In Cold Blood Truman Capote

Explantion: Extended comparrison between life and dumpster diving.

Definition:The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses

Exampe: "But one can...But as he...But I was...But i wasn't" (122) In Cold Blood Tuman Capote

Explanation: This repetition shows hesitation inthe speakers voice.

Definition: a short account of a particular incident or event, especially of an interesting or amusing nature.

Example: "I watched the yellow-white flames make a ragged brown line up the pink fabric of my skirt and climb my stomach then the flames leaped my reaching my face." (Pg. 9) The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls

Explanation: accouin on his she was burned. 

Definition: a word, phrase, or clause, usually a substantive, that is replaced by a pronoun or other substitute later, or occasionally earlier, in the same or in another, usually subsequent, sentence.

Example:"When giving treats o children, give thm what they like" (110) In Cold Blood Truman Capote

Explanation: "Them" is the later pronoun.

Definition: In rhetoric, antimetabole is the repetition of words in successive clauses, but in transposed grammatical order (e.g., "I know what I like, and I like what I know"). It is similar to chiasmus although chiasmus does not use repetition of the same words or phrases.

Example: "Now if I get migrane I just pop two Extragens and get on Keith life." (pg. 87) Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich 

Explanation: get and 1

Definition: Parallel structures that juxtapes contrasting ideas. 

Example: "Wizened toddlers at a tea-party" (pg. 103). Nickel and Dimed Barbra Ehrenreich

Explanation: by juxtaposing these words she paints a picture if Alzheimer's. 

Definition: a terse saying embodying a general truth, or astute observation, as “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”

Example: "there was another ouif mentor mental wickedness that night" (Pg. 168). Nickel and Dimed Barbra Ehrenreich 

Explanation: her mind was the truth. 

Definition: the sign ('), as used: to indicate the omission of one or more letters in a word, whether unpronounced, as in o'er for over, or pronounced, as in gov't for government; to indicate the possessive case, as in man's; or to indicate plurals of abbreviations and symbols, as in several M.D.'s, 3's.

Example: "'She's got chracter. Gets it from her old man'" In Cold Blood Truman Capote

Explanation: Shows posession of character.

Definition: placed in apposition

Example: "If you are brn in January, you will be better at hockey" (2). Outliers Malcolm Gladwell

Explantion: assumption

Definition: The use of words common to an earlier time period; antiquated language

Example: "Along wtih buffalo Jones, ho lost his money and then his mind..." (32). In Cold Blood Truman Capote

Explanation: This is archaic diction because they're going into great detail

Definition: a statement, reason, or fact for or against a point

Example: "When someone works for less pay then she can live on-when, for example, she goes hungry..." (Pg. 221). Nickel and Dimed Barbra Ehrenreich 

Explanation: Barbra uses this quothe to argue how unappreciated the working class is. 

Definition: a positive statement or declaration, often without support or reason

Example: "the only thing I know for sure is that this is as low as I can get in my life as a maid, and probably in most other lives as well" (pg. 114) Nickel and Dimed Barbra Ehrenreich 

Explanation: Empathetic statement supported by details of her work. 

Definition: resemblance of sounds.

Example: "beats...as it sweeps...as I clean..." (pg. 205) Nickel and Dimed Barbra Ehrenreich

Explanation: ee.ea noise is repeated. 

Defintion: something taken for granted; a supposition

Example: 'Give me a few weeks of this and I'll femne out enirely, my stride will be reduced to a mince, I'll start tuckin my head down to one side" (Pg. 156). Nickel and Dimed Barbra Ehrenriech.

Explanation: Convinced this is how everyone who works here is.

Definition: the omission of conjunctions, as in “He has provided the poor with jobs, with opportunity, with self-respect."

Example: "He was man, strong, whole" (2). In Cold Blood Truman Capote

Explanation: leavig out conjunctionsto make a point.

Definition: manner, disposition, feeling, position, etc., with regard to a person or thing; tendency or orientation, especially of the mind

Example: "It's humpling, this business of applying for low-wage jobs, consisting as it does of offering yourself-your e ergy, your smile, your real or faked lifetime of expierence- to a series of people whom this is just not an interesting package." (pg. 57) Nickel and Dimed Barbra Ehrenreich

Explanation: Position on job inerviews is sarcastic.

Definition: the group of spectators at a public event; listeners or viewers collectively, as in attendance at a theater or concert

Example: "I am, of course, ver different from the people who normally fill America's least attractive jobs, and in ways that both helped and limited me" (pg. 6). Nickel and Dimed Barbra Ehrenreich

Explanation: Adressing initial starting differences.

Defintion: the power to determine, adjudicate, or otherwise settle issues or disputes; jurisdiction; the right to control, command, or determine.

Example: 'The first was that I'd had my last whipping. no one was ever going to do that to me again" (pg. 221). The Glass Castle

Explanation: Used the beatings as her knowledge. Herselft as someone with knowledge. 

Defintion: a particular tendency or inclination, especially one that prevents unprejudiced consideration of a question; prejudice.

Example: "Think Sisyphus here or the sorcerer's apprentice" (pg. 163). Nickel and Dimed Barbra Ehrenreich

Explanation: being rude. 

Definiton: harsh discordance of sound; dissonance

Example: "You can tell me now. I'm reasonably soer" (197). In Cold Blood Truman Capote

Explanation: "reasonably" suggests they aren't truely sober.

Definition: a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases, as in “He went to the country, to the town went she.”

Example: "Whata beautiful day, this day, beautiful" (209) In Cold Blood Truman Capote

Explanation: this day constructs the chiasium.

Defintion: characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing; informal

Example: "Where his, uh, detox products are kept" (pg. 129). Nickel and Dimed Barbra Ehrenreich 

Explanation: more realistic, can tell she's unconfortable

Definition: a sentence containing one or more dependent clauses in addition to the main clause

Example: "on moonlit evenings the boys would descend upon them, set them running, and try to outrace them in the wagon: they seldom did" (pg. 39). In Cold Blood Truman Capote

Definition: an excessively favorable opinion of one's own ability, importance, wit, etc.

Example: "undersained and strng enough to shatter walnuts, were still intact" In Cold Blood Truman Capote

Explanation: This is a long metaphor.

Definition: the act of conceding or yielding, as a right, a privilege, or a point or fact in an argument

Example: "for now, nw was much too late" (228) In Cold Blood Truman Capote

Expanation: yieldng to that it is too late

Definition: the set of attributes constituting the meaning of a term and thus determining the range of objects to which that term may be applied; comprehension; intension.

Example: "The bus is for all, except blacks" (104). In Cold Blood Truman Capote

Explanation: Except

Definition: proper order or relationship.

Example: "Curiousity killed the cat, but for awhile we were suspected" (38). In Cold Blood Truman Capote

Explanation: Conjunction using "but".

 Definition: Sentences for two or more crimes to run consecutively, rather than concurrently.

Example: "Thosedays wehn she was her 'oldself' the affectionate and charming Bonie her friends cherrished" (27). In Cold Blood Truman Capote

Definition: a foundation of common interest or comprehension, as in a social relationship or a discussion.

Example: "Most folk in our town worshipped the lordon sundays" (18) In Cold Blood Truman Capote

Explanation: Most share this value.

Definition: the parts of a written or spoken statement that precede or follow a specific word or passage, usually influencing its meaning or effect

Example: 'mist hanging over a ilent lake, gnarled roots heaving up from the earth" (pg. 223). The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls

Explanation: details to determine what "gnarled" means.

Definition: a contrasting, opposing, or refuting argument.

Example: "God helps all, except it seems the negros" (147). Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich

Explanation: God helps all EXCEPT. This proves an opposng position.

Defintion: worthy of belief or confidence; trustworthy

Example: 'I can have a room without a kitchenette right now if i want, but it's in the basement and the price- $144 a week-seems a little sleep" (pg. 139). Nickel and Dimed Barbra Ehrenreich

Explantion: gives price and place. trustworthy facts. 

Definition: In grammar, the kind of sentence that makes a statement or “declares” something: “He eats yogurt.”

Example: "For the first time in my life as a maid I have a purpose more compelling than trying to meet the aesthetic standards of the New England bourgeoise" (Pg. 97). Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich

Definition: the act or process of deducting; subtraction.

Example: It's not a trivial exercie it's about 120 questions long. In fact, it's so tedious ad demandig that many students leav 10-20 questions blank." (247). Outliers Malcom Gladwell

Explanation: Fom opinio to fact.

Definition:something that denotes; mark; symbol

Example: "Dad nodded and held out his hands in a peace gesture" (pg. 109). The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls

Explanation: Gesture is used literally

Dictionary: style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words

Example: "very perfection of early summer" (pg, 121). Nickeled and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich

Explination: perfection

Definition: inclined to teach or lecture others too much

Example: "She applied for a job and was hired right away, since she had a degree, and there were never enough teachers in Battle Mountain. The few teachers the town did have were not exactly the pick of the liter, as dad liked to say..." (pg. 73). The Glass Castle Jeannerre Walls

Explanation: Teaching kids to be responsible. 

Definition: the use of documentary evidence.

Example: "The biggest Company Secret: Workers challenge employers practices on pay confidentiality; New York Times, July 28, 2000" (pg. 207). Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich

Explination: bibliographic source

Definiion: Used in, suitable for, or resembling an elegy.

Example: "as i stood looking atthe blood stained sotwhere he had fallen, pongs of anger hit me like ightening, paralyzig me emotionally" (203). In Cold Blood Truman Capote

Explanation: Mournfull over death

Definition The characteristic spirit of a culture, era, or community as manifested in its beliefs and aspirations

Example: "and he was trembling as if he had palsy. Ioffered to take him home, and I ended up carrying him piggy back" (pg. 144). The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls

Explanation: shows Jeannette's amazing charachter

Definition: the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt.

Example: "Clerical work is ruled ot by wardrobe limitations" (pg. 57). Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich

Explination: She uses the word 'limitations' to kindly say you have to be able to afford priceier clothes.

Definition: speech or writing that departs from literal meaning in order to achieve a special effect or meaning, speech or writing employing figures of speech

Example: "...and sometimes the sky misses the sun at night" (265). In Cold Blood Truman Capote

Explanation: Goes beyond literal meanig becuase the sky cannot "miss" something.

Definition: Any expressive use of language, as a metaphor, simile, personification, or antithesis, in which words are used in other than their literal sense, or in other than their ordinary locutions, in order to suggest a picture or image or for other special effect. Compare trope

Example: "it lingered lke a cloud that might rain or might not" (27). In Cold Blood Truman Capote

Explanation: Simile is a figure of speech.

Definition: an isolated, unfinished, or incomplete part

Example: "And so on" (pg. 95). Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich

Expanation: That is not a complete sentence.

Definition: to a universal rule

Example: God is good, therefore everyone should believe" (190). Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich

Explanation: This is nonsense. it offers no suppot to the conclusion.

Definition: A logical fallacy of faulty generalization by reaching an inductive generalization based on insufficient evidence.

Example: "According to a recent poll conducted by Jobs Fortle Future, a Boston-based employment research firm, 94 percent of Americans agree that, "'people who work full time should earn enough to keep their families out of poverty'"" (pg. 220). Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich

Explanation: False opion

Definition: Urging, or strongly encouraging.

Example: "All this water is mine. I have paid for it, in fact, I have earned it" (pg. 85). Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich

Explanation: Proud moment, encouraging for herself and what she has accomplished.

Definition: An argument that draws a conclusion for inconsistent or imcompatible premises

Example: "SHeis black, so she cannot provide for herself, yet she provides for he whole family"(105) The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls

Explanation: insufficent premises

Definition: insincere pathos; sentimentality; mawkishness

Example: "Mr. cdlutte had just one serious cause for disquet-his vefe's health. She was 'nervous' she suffred from 'little spells'-such were shelteredexpressions used by thse close to her" (7) In Cold Blood Truman Capote

Explanation: Dity used to understand ho the community felt about Ms. Clutter

Definition: applying to inductive arguments, in which the similarity in one respect of two concepts, objects, or events is taken as sufficient to establish that they are similar in another respect in which they actually are dissimilar

Example: "if you go to church, god will save you from going to hell" (pg. 205). Coming of Age Anne Moody

Explanation: applying fiction

Definition: What might have happened in the past or future if circumstances or conditions were other than they actually were or are.

Example: "Ballerinas pck theirtop athlees this way too" (10). Outliers Malcolm Gladwell

Explanation: No real evidence to upport the claim.

Definition: adverse information about a target is pre-emptively presented to an audience, with the intention of discrediting or ridiculing everything that the target person is about to say.

Example: "Don't listen to him, he's no good" (125). In Cold Blood Truman Capote

Explanation: No reasoning behindwhy you shouldn't trust "him".

Definition: a stategy using fear to influence the public's reaction

Example: "Dad was out that night...but we couldn't find him" (pg. 103). The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls

Explanation: reducing a potentially dangerous situation

Definition: presenting an unavoidable need to choose between two alternatives an either-or situation

Example: "The cat was mysteriously lurking in my mind" (2). In Cold Blood Truman Capote

Explanation: the cat could be a metaphor for many things

Definition: a dangerous and irreversible course

Example: "ONce it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the wais an dance a jig" (150). Outliers Malcom Gladwell

Explanation: Assuming once one thing happns the next will follow.

Definition: This technique tries to persuade everyone to join in and do the same thing.

Example: "If yu are born in January, you will be better at hocy" (2). Outliers Malcolm Gladwell

Explanation: assumption.

Definition: argued that a statement is correct because the statement is made by a person or source that is commonly regarded as authoritative.

Example: "What Wolf began to realize was that the secret of Roseto wasn't diet or exercise or genes or location. It had to be Roseto itself" (9) Outliers Malcolm Gladwall

Explanation: Wolf asumed ocrrectly because his theories are accepted.

Definition: character; unfouned positiveness in matters of opinion; arrogant assertion of opinions as truths.

Example: "After achievin ga 140 it does not matter about your IQ" (78). Outliers Macolm Gladwell

Explanation: believing he is puprios than all facts

Definition: political debate, usually to criticize any denial that a moral hierarchy can be assessed of two sides in a conflict, or in the actions or tactics of two sides.

Example: "A tragedy unbelieveable and shocing eyond words, strckfour member for the Herb Clutter family I ate Saturday...Death, brutal, nd without apponent motive" (70). In Cold Blood Truman Capote

Example: The muder is seriouos wrong-doing.

Definition: appealing to one's prejudices, emotions, or special interests rather than to one's intellect or reason.

Example: "I will not take his advice, for he hs never worked 'hard'" (143). Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich

Explanation: Claim is rejected on false petneses.

Definition: a type of logical fallacy in which the proposition to be proved is assumed implicitly or explicitly in the premise.

Example: "she spokeso forcefully, the white en went away. wehn they left, mama said to me, 'they thnk every negro women i centrevill ewho look likeanthing should lick thier as and whore arond with them" (200). Nicke and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich

Explanation: The men were "begging the question"

Definition: the use of equivocal or ambiguous expressions, especially in order to mislead or hedge; prevarication.

Example: "She stole his heart and his ie" (45). In Cold Blood Truman Capote

Explanation: stole is use in more than way.

Defition: an inference or a conclusion that does not follow from the premises.

Example: "Jack agon woud o on drinking spres and disapear w offered 2 full scholrsips" (92). Outliers Malcom Gladwell

Explanation: Why would someone who drinks get 2 scholarships.

Definition: obvious and intentional exaggeration

Example: "What is a self-respecting restaurant cook in a flavor-free environment any ways?" (pg. 65). Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich

Explanation: She's expressing doubt, overemphasizing the badness of the food served.

Definition: a language, dialect, or style of speaking to peculiar people

Example: "Every cloud has a silver lining" (105). Outliers Malcolm Gladwell

Explanation: This is an idiom.

Definition: the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively

Example: "After rain, or when snowfall thaws the streets unnamed, unshaded, unpaved, turn from the thickest dust into the dirtiest mud" (pg. 3). In Cold Blood Truman Capote

Explanation: Visual of the sad street.

Definition: a sentence that gives a command or makes a request and ends with a period.

Example: "The question seems frivolous or mocking. What do i want for dinner?" (pg. 102). Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich

Definition: something that actually exists; reality; truth

Example: "IN 1988, Arkansas state senator Jay Bradford attacked Wal-Mart for paying it's employee's so little that they had to turn to state for welfare" (pg. 175). Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich

Explination: Facts on Wal-Marts unfair pay.

Definition: any witty, ingenious, or pointed saying tersely expressed

Example: "I am 'baby,' 'honey,' 'blondie,' and most commonly 'girl.' (pg. 12) Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich

Explination: sarcasm

Definition: an explanation; interpretation

Example: "Cheryl Mendelson writes, 'Never ask hired housecleaners to clean your floors on their hands and knees; the request is likey to be regarded as degrading" (pg. 84). Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich

Explination: A look at the facts behind this. 

Definition: Model stating that all instances of a concept share defining properties.

Example: "It was late afternoon, and we were parked outside of a bar in the Nevada Desert. It was called the bar none bar... We were on our way to Las Vegas" (pg. 29). The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls

Definition: The act of introducing  or the state of being introduced.

Example: "I'm still haunted by dreams of the times we live on Mr. Carters plantation. Lots of negos lived on his plce" (3). In Cold Blood Truman Capote

Definition: Something narrated; an account, story, or narrative.

Example: "It was late afternoon, and we were parked outside of a bar in the Nevada Desert. It was called the Bar None Bar...we were on our way to Las Vegas" (pg. 29). The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls

Explanation: retelling her childhood.

Definition: something that confirms, as a corroborative statement or piece of evidence

Example: "Today, the color of the hand that pushes the sponge varies from region to region: Chicanas in the Southwest, Caribbeans in New York, native Hawaiians in Hawii, native whites many of rural extraction, in the Midwest" (pg. 79). Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich

Explanation: concrete details on the working class

Definition: An act of refuting a statement, charge, etc.; disproof.

Example: "what a beautiful day,this day, beautiful" (209). In Cold Blood Truman Capote.

Explanation: this day constructs the chaisium.

Definition: The end or close; final part.

Example: "We shall overcome, we shall overcome we shallovercome someday. I wonder I REALLY wonder" (424). In Cold Blood Truman Capote

Explanation:  question to close up the argent foreshadowing if there ever wil bean end to racism.

Defintion: to quote (a passage, book, author, etc.), especially as an authority

Definition: the act of inducing, bringing about, or causing

Example "IS there suc thing as innate talent? The obvious answer is yes. Not evry hokey player is born in January ends  up playing at the professional level" (38). Outliers Malcolm Gladwell.

Explanation: Starts with opinion then moves to facts.

Definition: vehement or violent denunciation, censure, or reproach.

Example: "Dick. who took a dim view of Willie-Jay. And called the letter 'Just more of Billy Grahamcracker's hooey' Adding faggots of scorn' He's the faggot" 

Explanation: Faggot as a invective word.

Definition: reversal of the usual or natural order of words; anastrophe.

Example: "What they tlked of all evening long,noone remembered the next evening" (210). In Cold Blood Truman Capote

Explanation: The verb preceeds te subject tomake a point.

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

Example: "'You don't have to worry anymore, baby'" Dad said. "'You're safe now'""

Explanation: Ironic because he said this after taking her from the hospital.

Definition: the language, especially the vocabulary, peculiar to a particular trade, profession, or group.

Example: "On November 15, 1959, in the small town of HOlocmb, Kansas. Four members of the Clutter family were svegly murdered by blasts from shot-gun held few inches from thie face. Thre was no apponnt motivefo hecrime adthere were almost no clues" (1). In Cold Blood Truman Capote

Example: Police Jargon.

Definition: an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.

Example: "Inequalities are good for society" (pg. 35). Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich

Explanation: Uses this quote to say many people keep this society going are unequal to the ones who do nothing for society.

Definition: The principle of reason and judgment, associated with the animus

Example: "it could be three, hundred, and then it's a ratio of ten to one. Huh?" (pg. 68). Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich

Explanation: appealing to christian logic

Definition: A direct comparison

Example: "Educated middle-class professionals never go careening half-cocked into the future.." (pg. 54). Barbara Ehrenreich

Explanation: Comparing half-cocked into the future..." (pg. 54). Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich

Explanation: Comparing hafl-cocked individuals with middle-class professionals.

Definition: a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related, or of which it is a part, as “scepter” for “sovereignty,” or “the bottle” for “strong drink,” or “count heads (or noses)” for “count people.”

Example: "eargives wings" (98). In Cold Blood Truman Capote

Explanation: Fear as a part.

Definition: a word, phrase, or sentence element that limits or qualifies the sense of another word, phrase, or element in the same construction.

Example: "You can tell me nw I'm reasonable sober" (197). In Cold Blood Truman Capote

Explanation: "reasonable" suggests tey aren't truely sober.

Definition: a state or quality of feeling at a particular time

Example: "but it was difficult to concentrate, for he was expecting a friend, and the friend was late" (pg. 14). Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich

Explanation: He is temporarily unsure because his friend is late.

Definition: a recurring subject, theme, idea, etc., especially in a literary, artistic, or musical work.

Example: "but it was impossibl for him to take me away from that nightmare those screams, those aces hat smoke, would nevr leve me" (143). Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich

Explanation: Using imagery as her distinct feature.

Definition: to convert (another part of speech) into a noun, as in changing the adjective lowly into the lowly or the verb legalize into legalization.

Example: "The times were a love fest" (pg. 104). Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich

Explanation: Love-fest makes it a noun

Definition: This is a narrator who is ‘all knowing’. The omniscient narrator, often found in third person narratives, has a detailed and full knowledge of the story's events and characters, from every perspective.
Example: "And yes, his sentences come marching ut one after anotherpolished and crisp like soldiers on a parade groud" (90). Ourliers Malcolm Gladwell

Explanation: Knows abou his life.

Definition:a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly.”

Example: "I'm an extreme pacifist: (pg. 49). Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich

Explanation: You have to be extreme or a pacifist ou cannont be both.

Definition: a particular time, especially as marked by certain circumstances or occurences

Example: "How does anyone live on the wages available to the unskilled? How, in particular, we wondered, were the roughly 4 million women about to be booted into the labor market by welform reform going to make it on $6 or $7 an hour?" (pg. 1). Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich

Explanation: Causes her to go undercover to research.

Definition: a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.

Example: "In th truest sense of that word: it does not permit nsensitivity or indiffernce" (217). Outliers Malcom Gladwell

Explanation: This statement seems cliche but is actually true.

Definition: agreement in direction, tendency, or charecter; the state or condition of being parallel.

Example: Other kids wanted to fight us because we had red hair, because dad was a drunk, because we wore rags an didn't take baths, becuase we lived in a falling down house... becuase they'd go by our dark house at night and see we couldn't afford electricity" (pg. 165). The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls

Explination: Repetition of the word because.

Definition: a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing

Example: "If you want to know the answer I'm afraid I have no idea" (71). Ourliers Malcolm Gladwell

Explanation: Making fun of her own intelligence.

Definition: a sentence that, by leaving the completion of its main clause to the end, produces an effect of suspense

Example: "She had commitd herself to helping another neighbors child, Roxie Le Smith, iwth her trumpet solo that Roie Lee lannd to play at a school concert; hadpromised to run 3 complicated errand for her mother: and had arrranged to attend a 4-Hmeetngin Garden Ci ithher father" (18). In Cold Blood Truman Capote

Explanation: Lising her to do list for the day.

Definition: the narrator of or a character in a literary work, sometimes identified with the author.

Example: "Alfred Stoecklein, not usually a talkative man had much to say" (pg. 78). The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls

Explanation: Assuming Alfred is usually quiet.

Definition: The attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure.

Example: "ON the evening of Tuesday, August 24, still summer, but with back-to-school sales shouting for attention from ever shopping center..." (pg. 52). Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich

Explanation: By saying the back-to-school sales were shouting she is using personificiation. 

Definition: The grammatical person used by a speaker in statements referring to himself or herself or to a group including himself or herself, as I and we in English.

Example: "I decided there must be something i am doing wrong, some cue i am missing: (pg. 139) Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich.

Explanation: This example is using first person by using the word "I".

Definition: the person used by a speaker in referring to the one or ones to whom he or she is speaking: in English you is a second person pronoun.

Example: "you fell so hard for her" (pg. 56). The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls

Explanation: This sentence is written in second person.

 Definition: the third part, the exposition of the question. 

"I was play8ing hide-and-seek along the tracks with some of the neighborhood kids. I found the perfect hiding place, a small tool shed behind a clump of sagebush that no one had hid before" (pg. 85). The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls.

Explanation: she was retelling childhood events

Definition: a statement, picture in words, or account that describes; descriptive representation.

Example: "It was though his head had been halved like an apple, then put togethr a fraction off center... the imperfectly aligned featureswere the outcome of a car collision in1950" (31). In Cold Blood Truman Capote

Explanation: Description of Dick.

Definition: one of the seven primary modes of exposition, either gives directions about how to do something (directive) or provides information on how something happened (informative).

Example: "It requires no language skillsor specific body of acquired knowledge. Its a measure of abstract reasoning skills" (77). Outliers Malcolm Gladwell

Explaation: How the Raven test works

Definition: Something that exemplifies; an illustration or example.

Example: "This isn't a night were you can rely on jus your eyest land the plane. Look at the weathe radar is telling us: There's trouble ahead" (216). Outliers Malcolm Gladwell

Explanation:This provides facts that even though it looks clear it is not.

Definiton: the considering of two things with regard to some characteristic that is common to both, as the likening of a hero to a lion in courage./show unlikeness

Example: "She was black an dhe was not, it could never work n his day" (235). In Cold Blood Truman Capote

Explanation: Two ideas are compared.

Definition: one of the groups or classes into which things may be or have been classified./the act or process of dividing 

Example: "Trmites were a theabsolute pinacl of the intellectual scale-atthe ninty-ninth peretile f that niney-inth percentile- ithoutrealzing how littl tha tment" (89). Outliers Malcolm Gladwell.

Explanation: Breaking down the idea that genous is not everything

Definition: the act of defining or making definite, distinct, or clear.

Example: "The way she saw it, glasses were like crutches. They prevented people with feeble eyes from learning to see the world on their own" (pg. 96). The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls

Explanation: Identifies conflict between school and home requirements.

Definitin: nothing a relationship between actions or events such that one or more are the result of the other or others.

Example: "those rotten chikens that came in ith sores all over them. I would see women take them, cut the knots and rotten sores off and  box the remaining parts these women would often have terrible ashes break out on their hans frm the hot blood and dressed flesh" (181). In Cold Blood Truman Capote

Explanation: Causes and effect of the slaughter house.

Definitin: The use of a number of conjunctions in close succession.

Example: "She had comited to helping another neighbor's child, Roxie Lee Smith wit her trumpet solo that oxie Lee planned to pay at a school concert; had promised to run 3 complcateed errands for her mother: and had arranged to attend a 4-14 meeting in Garden City ith her father" (18). In Cold Blood Truman Capote

Explanation: lots of conjunctions for listening.

Definition: a proposition supporting or helping to support a conclusion.

Example: "the irst officer an the engineer ould have bwe t the ccaptain. Cheo com boeb some nid, the copiolet might have said, respectfully. 'It is first time to meet you'" (214). Outliers Malcolm Gladwell

Explanation: First sentence is chinese, second is eplonation of writing in chinese.

Definition: any member of a small class of words found in many languages that are used as replacements or substitutes for nouns and noun phrases, and that have very general reference

Example: "I was thinking about God, I was thinking about him, too" (pg. 302). The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls

Explanation: replaces him for God.

Definition: information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement institution, nation, etc.

Example: "Fortunately for her, th einterview consists almost enirely of a four page 'opinion survey' with 'no right or wrong answers'" (pg. 38). Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich

Explanation: Uses quotes to show her negative feelings toward the survey.

Definition: the reason for which something exists or is done, made, used, etc.

Example: "The idea was to spend a month in each setting and see wherher I could find a job and earn, in that time, the money to pay a second months rent" (pg. 5). Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich

Explanation: What she inteed to do while writing.

Definition: to prove to be false or erroneous, as an opinion or charge.

Example: "I have to confess I couldn't figure this one out, and I'm uessing most of you couldn't ether Chris Langan almost certainly could"(78). Outliers Malcolm Gladwell

Explanation: he argumnt that langan is very smart.

Definition: the undue use of exaggeration or display; bombast. 

Example: "WEll, t was a delicate situation It appeared that legally we weren't obliged to pay. But morally-that was another matter" (71). In Cold Blood Truman Capote

Explanation: Italicized words to ersuade the family.

Definition: A diagram showing the relations of writer or speaker, reader or listener, and text in a rhetorical situation.

Example: "If you want to know the answer I'm afraid I have o idea" (71). Outliers Malcolm Gladwell

Explanation: Making fun of her own intelligence

Definition: a question asked solely to produce an effect or to make an assertion and not to elicit a reply, as “What is so rare as a day in June?”

Example: "Don't listen to hm, he'sno good" (125). Ouliers Malcolm Gladwell

Definition: the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.

Example: "A rectangular onvercan: All you have t do is tilt it sideways. there: now you can get a job at Microsoft" (76). Outliers Malcolm Gladwell.

Explanation: Argues it's a hard question. Proves it is not that complex.

Definition: A comparison using like or as

Example: "I bring pizza and salad back to my room for dinner, telling myself that anything tastes better when acquired at some risk to life and limb, like venison fresh fro the hunt" (pg. 54). Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich 

Explanation: This simile is comparing her hard work to the complexity of an animals hunting.

Definition: A sentence having only one clause.

Example: "So I didn't answer the mote" (pg. 216). Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich

Explanation: This is just a simple, short sentence.

Definition: a person whose importance or function is only nominal, as to cover another's activities; front.

Example: "Her mother arranges for her to be restested privately, petitions the school, and gets her daughter admitted. The poor parents in contrast, are intemidatedby author ty" (104).Ourliers Malcolm Gladwall

Explanation: Poor parens are much different than rich parents. It is disputed and proven.

Definition: a clause that modifies the principal clause or some part of it or that serves a noun function in the principal clause, as when she arrived in the sentence I was there when she arrived or that she has arrived in the sentence I doubt that she has arrived.

Example: "I put the remains in the plastic bag that served as a table cloth and tie it uptightly to discourage the flies" (pg. 160). Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich

Explanation: it as a place of plastic bag

Definition: the act of placing in a lower rank or position

Example: "while th epeople are merly souls, the souls are peple" (245). In Cold Blood Truman Capote.

Explanation: reversed.

Definiton: Deductive reasoning.

Example: "roughy 10,000 hours, is it possible the soe pattern of special opportuniy operte in the real word?" (37). Outliers Malcolm Gladwel.

Explanation: Conclusion-work had and you will achieve.

Definition: Something used for or regarded as representing something else; a material object representing something, often something immaterial; emblem, token, or sign.

Example: "I got off greyhound in centreville with 65 dollars...walking home swinging my suitcase" (pg. 153). Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich

Explanation: New clothes symbolizing happiness that soon perishes.

Definition: a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special

Example: "All hands on deck for educatio" (325). In Cold Blood Truman Capote

Explantion: "hands"

Definition: a unifying or dominant idea, motif, etc., as in a work of art.

Example: "How does anyone live on the wages available to the unskilled?" Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich

Explanation: The theme of the book is about being poor vs. rich.

Definition: any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source etc.

Example: "The people who quarried the marble...and now bend and squat to clean it" (pg 90). Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich

Explanation: Tone of disgust and upset toward the homeowner.

Definition: The act or an instance of understating, or representing in a weak or restrained way that is not borne out by the facts

Example: "if you're born in auary, you will be better at hockey" (2). Outliers Malcolm Gladwell

Definition: a rate of activity, progress, growth, performance, etc.; tempo.

 Definition: a person who argues in opposition to another; controversialist.

Definition: a plan, design, or program of action to be followed; project.

Example: "I began to think something would be done about whites killing, beating, and missing negroes. I knew I was going to be apart of whatever happened" (276). In Cold Blood Truman Capote

Explanation: She uses a powerfull effec and listening to gie her the desireton.

Definition: The characteristic grammatical structures or patterns of English, such as word order, the use of prefixes and suffixes, the use of auxiliary verbs to form questions and negatives, the use of prepositions, and the use of articles

Example: "I'd think about Hawii Abouta movi I'd seen with dorthly la mou. I wanted to g ther where the sun was"(133). In Cold Blood Truman Capote

Many independent thoughts.

Definition: Different flow and tones of the sentences.

Example: "Thos ays when she was her 'old self' the affectionate and charming Bonnie her friends cherristed" (27). In Cold Blood Truman Capote

Explanation: Old self, she

Definition: any thing or place from which something comes, arises, or is obtained; orgin.

Example: "The biggest company secret: workers challenge emplloyer practics on pay confidentiality,"  New York Times, July 28, 2000" (pg. 207). Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich

Explanation: This consults as a footnote to information above in the box.

Definition: a person who speaks formally before an audience; lecturer; orator.

Example: "I learned to like Miss ola...when I was there" (pg. 36). The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls

Explanation: Use of I.

Definition: thought regarded as a succession of ideas and images constantly moving forward in time.

Example: "Itbecame obvious at school that Hicks liked me, and a lot of girls on the basketball team began t get jealous. We had hown great team work before. Now when we practiced the girls would freeze me ou of the game" (200). In Cold Blood Truman Capote

Explanation: Thoughts on how andwhy the girls were treating her different.

Definition: a particular, distinctive, or characteristic mode of action or manner of acting

Example: "HIs explanationsas heartbreaking as they are, are also a little strange...making allowances in the name of helping someone stay i school is what professors do ll the time" (97). Outliers Malcom Gladwell

Explanation: Using multple entences to mae his point.

Definition: that which forms a basic matter of thought, discussion, investigation, etc.

Example: "I really got to like all of the SNCC workers...nost could do with fifty" (pg. 274). Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich

Explanation: Addressing black rights.

Definition: To form by combining parts or elements.

Example: "purposefully andsingle mindedly playing their instruments with the intent to get better" (39). Ouliers Malcolm Gladwell

Explanation: purposly and single mindedly.

Definition: A subject for a composition or essay.

Example: "How does anyone live on the wages available to the unskilled?" (pg. 3). Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich

Explanation: What sprung the core book.

Definition: a short statement, usually one sentence, that summarizes the main point or claim of an essay, research paper, etc., and is developed, supported, and explained in the text by means of examples and evidence.

Definition: a sentence that expresses the essential idea of a paragraph or larger section, usually appearing at the beginning.

Definition: a phrase, sentence, or verse formerly interpolated in a liturgical text to amplify or embellish.

"Ascending from boiler makers to martin is before booze beat out ambition" (pg. 18). Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich

Definition: the faculty or power of uttering sounds through the mouth by the controlled expulsion of air; speech

Example: "If we falter and loose our freedom, it will be because we destroyed ourselves" (pg. 109). Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich

Explanation: in voice

Definition: The use of a word to modify or govern two or more words when it is appropriate to only one of them or is appropriate to each but in a different way

Example: "Along with Buffa Jones,who lost hi money and then his mind..." (32). In Cold Bood Truman Capote

Zeugma is used to somewhat differ frm everyday speech and convey that he hadno hope ause he was "loosing" everything.