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"The Monkey's Paw"
Vocabulary for the short story
Term | Definition |
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Foreshadowing | giving details that hint at upcoming events |
Prediction | logical idea about what will happen. |
Grave | very serious and worrying |
Maligned | spoken ill of |
Credulity | tendency to believe too readily |
Furtively | secretively;sneakily;stealthily |
Apathy | lack of interest or emotion |
Oppressive | causing great discomfort;distressing |
Theme | central message or insight into life revealed through a literary work |
Internal Conflict | character in conflict with himself or herself |
External Conflict | character struggles against an outside force |
Tone | writer's attitude toward his or her audience and subject |
Mood | atmosphere; feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage |
Inference | a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning |