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VocabularyLanguageA
"The Necklace"
Question | Answer |
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Dowry | Money or property a women brings to her husband |
Tapestries | Fabric with pictures or designs woven on it, used to hang on walls, cover furniture. |
Incessantly | Never stopping, continued or repeated without interruption, continual. |
Disconsolate | Without hope |
Vexation | A vexing, thing that vexes. (Anger,annoy,provoke) |
Scornfully | Showing contempt full or scorn, mocking. |
Pauper | A very poor person, supported by charity or welfare. |
Dictation | Act of saying or reading word a loud to another person who writes them down. |
Privations | Lack of the comforts or of the necessities of life |
Recollections | Memories |
Ruinous | Bringing ruin, causing distruction. |
Gamut | A complete extent or range |
Garret | A floor consisting of open space at the top of a house, below the roof. |
Scanty | Lacking in amplitude or quantity |
Exorbitant | Greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation |
Shrill | of colors that are bright |
Omniscient point of view | all-knowing, 3rd person. (he,she,they) |
First person point of view | Point of view in which "I" is served as the narrator |
Third person limited point of view | A method of storytelling in which the narrator knows only thoughts and feelings of a single character, while other characters extremely. Always told in 3rd person (he,she) |