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to caution or advise against somthing; to scold mildly; to remind of duty   admonish  
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to incline beforehand   predispose  
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to make fun of rudely or unkindly; (n) a rude dremark of derision   jeer  
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a fallower, supporter; (adj) attached, sticking to   adherent  
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exvessive fatness   obesity  
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favorable; fortunate   auspicious  
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overly self - important in speech and manner; excessively stately or ceremonious   pompous  
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hidden, present but no realized   latent  
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to give way to superior force, yeild   succumb  
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complicated, difficult to understand   intricate  
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careful; cautious   circumspect  
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to let go; give up   relenquish  
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bringing in money; profitable   lucrative  
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resembling an angle portrayed as a little child with a beautiful, round, or chubby face; sweet and innocent   cherubic  
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to overcome, rise above   srumount  
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to mislead by a trick, deceive   hoodwink  
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a temporary relief or delay; (v) to grant a postponement   reprieve  
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having a gloomy or sullen manner; not friendly or sociable   morose  
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to make up for   atone  
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easy to understand, clear; rational, sane   lucid  
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clumsy, hark to handle; slow-moving   cumbersome  
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to make up for; repay for services   compensate  
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average, ordinary, undistinguished   mediocre  
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to pardon or overlook   condone  
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common place; overused, stale   trite  
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not having life; without energy or spirit   inanimate  
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unreasonable; based onone's wishes or whims without regard for reason or fairness   arbitrary  
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not letting light through; not clear or lucid; dense, stupid   opaque  
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believable   credible  
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occuring or published after death   posthumous  
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scattered fragments, wreckage   Debris  
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non regular or consistent; different from what is ordinary expected; undependable   erratic  
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to reproduce,increase, or spread rapidly   profilerate  
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to disagree ( n ) a disagreement   dissent  
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a lack of government and law; confusion   anarchy  
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very brace, fearless, unshakable   intrepid  
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to make easier to assist   facilitate  
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cheif in importance, above all others   paramount  
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hardworking, industriouse, not lazy   diligent  
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grimly or scornfully mocking, bitterly sarcastic   sardonic  
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to spread or scatter freely or widely; (adg) wordy, longwinded, or unfocused; scattered or widely spread   diffuse  
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a deliberately deceptive moment; a pretense; (v) to make a deceptive movement; a pretense; (v) tomake a deceptive movement; to make a pretense of   feint  
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brief and to the point   terse  
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angry   irate  
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Hard to do; requireing much effort   arduous  
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theft   larceny  
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not able to be corrected; beyond control   inocorrigable  
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not running or flowing;foul from standing still; inactive, sluggish, dull   stagnant  
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never stopping, going on all the time   incessent  
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holding fast, holding together strongly, persistent   tenacious  
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the struggle or clash between opposing characters or opposing forces   conflict  
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what is a conflict map?   If maps out the plot of the story events  
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s character struggles against an outside fored.   external confict  
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takes place within a character's own mind   internal confict  
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list all the external types of struggles   man. vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. society  
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name all the types of internal struggles   man vs. self  
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the process of revealing the personality of a character in a story is called ________   characterization  
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when a writer uses this characterization we have to use our own judgement to decide what a character is like   indirect characterization  
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a method where that author directly tells the reader what a character is like   direct characterization  
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a character that doesn't change throughout the story   static character  
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A character that changes throughout the story   dynamic character  
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a character that has only a few traits and can be described in a few words   flat character  
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a character has many different character traits   round character  
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Contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality - between what is said and what is really meant, beteen what is expected to happen and what really does happen.   Irony  
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iron that occurs when there is a contrast between what would seem appropriate and what really happens   verbal irony  
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occurs when there is a contrast between what would seem appropriate and what really happens   Situational irony  
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Irony that occurs when the audience or the reader knows somthing important theat the character in a play or story doesn't know.   Dramatic Irony  
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a person place thing or event that stands for itself and for something beyond itself as well   symbolism  
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a central idea of a work of literature   theme  
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What type of conflict did The Scarlet Ibis have?   external  
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What type of conflict did marygolds have?   Both internal and external  
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What type of confilct does helen on 86ths street have?   both internal and external  
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conflict - cask of amontildo   external  
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conflict - the necklace   external  
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conflict - the gift   external  
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conflict - the gift of the magi?   external  
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conflict - The most dangerious game?   external and internal  
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conflict - a christmas memory   internal and external  
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conflict - thankyou mam   internal and external  
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conflict - poison   internal and external  
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name the stories that deal with the development of characters why?   Helen on 86th, The Scarlet Ibis, The marigolds, the gift of the magi, a christmas memory, thankyou mama  
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which stories feature ironic endings and what type or irony?   The necklace is ironic because she ruined her life just to pay off a necklace that bought for a friend that the origional had turned out to be fake, situational, The gift of the magi is situational irony because they both sold the precious item to buy  
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who wrote the Scarlit Ibis?   James Hurst  
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Who wrote marigolds?   Eugenia Collier  
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Who wrote Helen on86th?   Wendy Kaufmen  
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who wrote the cask of Amontildo   Edgar Allan Poe  
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who wrote the Necklace   Guy de Maupassant  
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who wrote the gift?   Ray Bradbury  
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who wrote the gift of the Magi?   O. Henry  
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Wrote the most dangerious game   Richard Connell  
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wrote a christmas memory   Truman Capote  
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wrote thankyou mama   Langston Hughs  
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wrote poison   Roald Dahl  
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wrote the birds   Dappne Du Maurier  
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wrote SLOB   Sue Monk Kiddi  
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wrote Rebecca   Daphne Du Maurier  
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