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"The Monkey's Paw"
Vocabulary for the short story
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |