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L.A. For The Vocab
To study vocab words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Flashback | |
| Flashback | A sudden moment where you remember something that happened earlier. |
| Flashback | Noah remembers how he knew what calligraphy was. |
| Allusion | |
| Allusion | Casually reference something that's famous. |
| Allusion | Rafael's cherubs T.S. is Tillie's cat and is compared to T.S. Elliot Alice in Wonderland~ Cheshire cat |
| Simile | |
| Simile | Using like or as to compare two things |
| Simile | Century Village is like a theme park for old people. |
| Point of view | |
| Point of view | The prospective of which the story is told. |
| Point of view | Ms. Olinski~ Third person narrative Noah~ First person view |
| Foreshadowing | |
| Foreshadowing | Your hinting what will come to pass. |
| Foreshadowing | Mrs. Olinski didn't know why she chose the four she did, but she will find out. |
| Pun | |
| Pun | Two words that sound alike, or are the same with different meanings that are being used humorously. |
| Pun | I would be living in the state of divorce in New York. Ginger is a genius of her genus. |
| Idioms | |
| Idioms | An expression beyond it's literal meaning. |
| Idioms | It's raining cats and dogs Your driving me up the wall Hit the road Break a leg |
| Personification | |
| Personification | When you give something nonhuman a human trait. |
| Personification | The windshield wipers danced back and forth. The rain battered at the ground. |
| Decorum | |
| Decorum | Good taste; Polite behavior |
| Decorum | We all behaved with decorum when the Mayor visited our school |
| Domicile | |
| Domicile | Legal residence; home |
| Domicile | I had to list the address of my permanent domicile on my passport application. |
| Bickering | |
| Bickering | Squabbling |
| Bickering | The children's constant bickering made the babysitter decide to find another job. |
| Hovered | |
| Hovered | Lingered |
| Hovered | Our dog hovered protectively over her new litter of puppies. |
| Podium | |
| Podium | lectern |
| Podium | The speaker was embarrassed when she tripped walking up to the podium. |
| Incandescently | |
| Incandescently | Radiantly |
| Incandescently | When the actor saw his admiring fans, he smiled incandescently in their direction. |
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