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View From Sat. Vocab
vocab from the view from saturday
Question | Answer |
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Point of View: Definition | The perspective from which a story is told; the voice telling the story |
Point of View: Example | Mrs. Olinski-third person Noah-first person |
Simile: Definition | Using like or as to compare two things |
Simile: Example | Trading coupons was like playing Go Fish |
Allusion: Definition | A usually brief often casual reference to some other person event or thing |
Allusion: Example | T.S Elliot, Alice in Wonderland, Mad Tea Party |
Flashback: Definition | A section of a novel that interrupts the chronological sequence of events to relate something that happened at an earlier time |
Flashback: Example | Noah at wedding, How Mrs. Olinski selected her team |
Pun: Definition | A play on words in which two different meanings for the same word, or two words that sound the same, are used humorously |
Pun: Example | I would be living in the state of divorce and New York |
Foreshadowing: Definition | Hints or suggestions about something that will occur later in the novel |
Foreshadowing: Example | Yet-to-come moment when Mrs. Olinski finally understands why she chose the members of her Academic Bowl Team |
Decorum: Definition | Dignified behavior, polite |
Superb: Definition | fine excellent extremely good |
Domiciles: Definition | home, place of residence |
Bickering: Definition | fighting |
Courteous: Definition | having or showing good manners |
Hovered: Definition | to keep lingering about wait near at hand |
Trounce: Definition | to beat severely to beat decisively |
Protruding: Definition | to project, to thrust forward |
Podium: Definition | a small platform |
Incandescently: Definition | intensely bright brilliant |
Setting of the Story | Epiphany and Albany NY |
Ironic: Definition | the contrast between what you expect to happen and what really happens |
Acronym: Definition | A word formed from the initial letters of other words |
Calligraphy: Definition | Decorative handwriting made by a pen or brush |
Parents jobs | Nadia- Dad is a accountant Mom is dentist hygienist Noah- Dad is a dentist Mom is a realtor Ethan- Mom and Dad farmers Julian- Dad chef and owns a B&B Mom was a chanteuse |
Author | E.L Konigsburg |