First chapter of Call of the Wild with vocabulary and roots
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| antagonist | the principal opponent or adversary of the main character | |
| author | the person who writes a book, story, article | |
| character | a person in the story | |
| climax | the point of highest interest when the fate of the main character is decided | |
| colloqualism | informal spoken or written language | |
| closure | conclusion, finish, ending | |
| definition sentence | meaning a word is given within the sentence | |
| epilogue | information added to the end of a novel | |
| fable | short story with animals that speak like humans; teaches a lesson | |
| fiction | not a fact; made up | |
| flashback | a break in a story to show an event in the past | |
| foreshadow | hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in a story | |
| genre | kind; sort | |
| hyperbole | exaggeration | |
| legend | a story handed down from earlier times after believed to be historically true | |
| plot | pattern or system of events and actions that make up the story | |
| protagonist | the hero or character in a story around whom the interest centers | |
| prose | not poetry | |
| setting | time, place of story | |
| simile | comparison using like or as | |
| gen | beginning, race | |
| re | back, again | |
| co, com, con, col, cor | with, together | |
| glac | ice | |
| im, in, il, ir, ig | not | |
| de | down, away | |
| inter | between | |
| bel | war | |
| vis | see | |
| mono | one | |
| dis | not | |
| mal | bad | |
| uni | one | |
| anim | spirit | |
| pel | drive | |
| _less | totally without | |
| ver | truth | |
| epi | outside, on | |
| log | account, word | |
| Buck | a St. Bernard-Scotch sheherd who is kidnapped | |
| Buck's original owner | Judge Miller | |
| the gardener who kidnaps Buck | Manuel | |
| When was Buck kidnapped? | at night while Judge Miller was sleeping | |
| Where was Buck first taken? | to a train station | |
| How long was Buck on the train? | 2 days and nights | |
| How was Buck treated? | Badly - no food or water | |
| Morgan | The man in charge of all the stolen dogs | |
| What weapon did Morgan have? | a club |
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