Title - Twilight Author: Meyer, Stephenie Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human. Entertain Science Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 2537 5.8 980 RDQ based on a maximum of 3000 words Levels are suggested levels based on RDQ, not official levels Sentences Total Words Different Words Max Word/Sent 43 Total # of Words 4545 # of Different Words 1340 Ave Word/.Sent 12 Hi Freq occurs 3553 78.2% # of Hi freq words 550 41% % of Long Sentences 18.7 Low Freq occurs 326 7.2% # of Low freq words 293 21.9% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Many difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concept: Fanciful Chapters Features Character traits Complex character relationships Complex plot Ambiguous ending First Person Topics Love *Fictional Ideas/Charac Vampires Werewolves Relationships Low Frequency Words accepting adjoining advantage airbrushed aisle albino alien angular announced antique appreciate apprehensively approached awareness biohazard boyish brained bulbous bulky cabinets cafeteria chalky circling claustrophobia cloudless cluttering college commercial communal compelled compromise constant conversation convincing convincingly coordination cropped curiosity curious curtains decision degrees dejectedly deny despite devastatingly diplomatic distaste documents donned doubt dreadful drizzling earliest eaves eavesdrop effect embarrassed embarrassing emotions encouraging escaped essays esteem eventually exhaled exiled expressing extreme eyelet familiar fashion features feebly fend fenders ferns fifties flaw flecked flighty flushed foreign fraction frequently frightening gangly gasoline gawked gawking genuinely gesture glitch goodbyes gossip government graceful gradually gravel greenery greenly gruffly haired handkerchief harming harmony hedges heights highlighting homecoming hopeful hoping horrific horror hover humiliating humor hyperventilation identifying idiot idling illustrated immediate immediately impossibility impressed income inconsequential informed inhumanly institution intense introduce introduced introducing isabella issue ivory junior knowing lanky lark liar lied lifter liking limits linoleum lithe lope lunchroom maroon marriage mattered mechanic mercedes modem motivation muscled muscular nameplate nasal necessities neighbor niche nickname nostalgically notices nowhere obvious omen omnipresent opposed opposites overdressed overly paler palest pallid paneled panic paradise paranoid parka particular pause peninsula peppermint permanence permeable phoenix physically pixielike pooled porcelain porsche possibilities prattled precariously primary procession prompted purplish radius realize recognize recovering reflection refrigerator refused registered renée reservation resources respond responded response rounded route runway sacrifice sallower sarcasm scanty scarcity schedule seattle secondhand seventy shakespeare sheepishly sheeting shrubs sideways similar sixties skinned sleepless sleeveless slender slung spasm sprawling stammered stapled statuesque steadied stipulation studied sunless supplement surrounded suspicious swan swimsuit swirled sworn tangled teenagers tentatively thunderous toasty tobacco toddlers translucent trig trigonometry unavoidable unbitten unchanging uncomfortable unhealthy unisex unmatching unnecessary unnerving unopened unscratched untidy unwillingly upholstered urged vacationed vaguely varner verbose vigorous volume wardrobe waterproof whooshing yellowed youngest