Vocabulary & Concepts Review - Unit 3

Power or ability to act or to influence people, events, decisions, etc.; sway

• Leverage

• Guttural

• Incite

• Alliteration

A gathering of North America's Native people, or specific type of event where both Native American and non-Native Americans meet to dance, sing, socialize, and honor Native American/First Nations culture.

• Retribution

• Powwow

• Reservation

• Allegory

The crime of obtaining money or some other thing of value by the abuse of one's office or authority.

• Simile

• Revenge

• Leverage

• Extortion

Sweetly or smoothly flowing; sweet-sounding

• Mellifluous

• Mitigate

• Incite

• Guttural

A Native American war leader of the Oglala Lakota.

• Victor

• The Lone Ranger

• Crazy Horse

• Adrian

"Big bold bears battling buzzing bees" is an example of...

• Allegory

• Analogy

• Alliteration

• Antonym

Comparing two things using "like" or "as."

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Allegory

• Idiom

Giving non-human or non-living objects characteristics or

descriptions that would apply to a human being.

• Metaphor

• Symbolism

• Hyperbole

• Personification

Exaggerated statements or claims in order to create strong

feelings or strong impressions in the reader.

• Metaphor

• Symbolism

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

 An expression that holds a different meaning to its literal meaning.

• Allusion

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Simile