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Mystery Vocab Terms
These terms are going to help study for my mystery test on 5/14.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| accomplice | a helper or partner in a criminal act |
| alibi | an excuse (truth or lie) regarding where a person was during a crime |
| alias | an alternate identity |
| avarice | greed |
| deduction | a process of thinking, figuring out a puzzle by pulling the pieces apart and reassembling them |
| eccentric | odd, quirky, out of the norm... |
| gaunt | sunken faced |
| motive | a reason for an act |
| pseudonym | a fake name used by a writer for various reasons |
| scrutinize | a fake name used by a writer for various reasons |
| sleuth | a detective |
| swanky | rich, but old rich, like antiques, etc |
| irony | the unexpected.... verbal (like sarcasm) dramatic(when the reader knows information that a main character in a story doesn't situational(when a reader is led up to believe something...and then the opposite occurs. Like a bank robber robbing a bank to |
| foreshadowing | a literary device used to give the reader hints to an upcoming, significant event. Usually this carries a negative connotation, but sometimes good events may be foreshadowed too |
| red herrings | misleading clues planted by the author in a plot to throw the reader off track. These are used to draw the reader into the story. |
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