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Wimbrel Vocabulary
Story Vocabulary and Literary Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| beachcomber | one who wanders about looking for food, provisions, or some unexpected find |
| burrowing | digging down |
| dunes | sand hills |
| marshes | areas of waterlogged soil, having no trees and covered with rushes, cattails and other grasses |
| mottled | marked with spots or blotches of different colors or shades |
| pottering | (puttering) doing "odds and ends" of small jobs |
| puckered | drew together tighly, forming wrinkles |
| quizzically | questioningly |
| shrewdly | sharly and cleverly |
| vise | a tool with two jawas that can be adjusted to hold an object firmly |
| Genre of "The Wimbrel" | Fiction |
| Point of View | Depends on who is telling the story |
| Dialogue | Conversation between characters |
| External conflict | Conflict between a person and something out of the person |
| Internal conflict | Conflict that takes place insides a person's mind and emotions |
| Characters | people or animals in the story |