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billy m enlish 9
review for test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| define a paddy | flooded field where rice is grown |
| define stealth | sercet actions or movements |
| define pretened | acted like some one |
| define fecund | producing much growth |
| define diffuse | unfuced |
| define skirted | to go around the outside of |
| define courage | strenght and determination |
| define inertia | tendency to continue what one is doing |
| define mortar | muzzle-loading firing weapon for short ranges |
| define giggles | uncontollable laughter |
| define style | is the way a piece of work is written |
| define flashback | is an account of something before the story started |
| define voice | is the personality of the author |
| define inferences | something gathered but not outright said |
| define realism | vivid description of what the character sees or does |
| define preclude | to make impossible |
| define impunity | freedom of harm or penaltys |
| define immolation | death or destruction |
| define absond | togo away suddenly or secrcerty |
| define repose | dead at rest |
| define terminaton | an end or limit |
| define subside | to decrease in amount |
| define aperture | an opening |
| define irony | refers to the contrast between apperance and reality |
| define dramatic irony | occurs when readers know more about the situaton in the story than the charcter does |
| define verbal irony | when the character states one thing but means another |
| define setting | the time and placeof the story's action |
| define mood | the atmosphere the author creates |
| define imagery | descriptive words that recreate sensory experiences |
| define suspense | is the excitement or tension |
| define niter | a type of mineral |
| define coat of arms | is a family tree with things that deal with the family |
| define quarry | the object of a hunt |
| define tangible | touch or feel or soild |
| define inferior | less important |
| define condone | toforegive or lookover |
| define plot | is a series of events |
| define impearative | absolutely necessary |
| define unkanny | super nature |
| define conflict | tension between two or more people |
| define scruple | feeling of uneasyless |
| define zealous | good feeling |
| define foreshawdow | a hint of what will happen next |
| define prospects | chances or possibilties |
| define incessantly | withoutinterrution |
| define pauper | poor person |
| define aghast | filled with skock or horror |
| define gamut | entire range or series |
| define askew | crooked to one side |
| define franc | was the basic monetary unit of France |
| define Seine | the principal river of Paris |
| define paste | hard glassy material used in making imition gems |
| define singular | one |
| define pluarl | more than one |
| define personal | ownership of something |
| define common noun | a persn place or thing |
| define proper noun | a specic person place or thing |
| define concrete noun | a soild object that can be touch |
| define abstract noun | an idea that can not be touch |
| define collective noun | a group of objects |
| define compound noun | two nouns together making a compound noun |
| define possessive noun | showing ownership odf an object |
| define action verb | showing movment |
| define | |
| define prospects | chances or possibilties |
| define incessantly | withoutinterrution |
| define pauper | poor person |
| define aghast | filled with skock or horror |
| define gamut | entire range or series |
| define askew | crooked to one side |
| define franc | was the basic monetary unit of France |
| define Seine | the principal river of Paris |
| define paste | hard glassy material used in making imition gems |
| define singular | one |
| define pluarl | more than one |
| define personal | ownership of something |
| define common noun | a persn place or thing |
| define proper noun | a specic person place or thing |
| define concrete noun | a soild object that can be touch |
| define abstract noun | an idea that can not be touch |
| define collective noun | a group of objects |
| define compound noun | two nouns together making a compound noun |
| define possessive noun | showing ownership odf an object |
| define action verb | showing movment |
| define relfexive pronoun | refects action back upon the subject of its sentence or clause |
| define intensive pronoun | emphasizes a noun or pronoun in the same sentence |
| define demonstraive pronoun | points out specific persobs places thing or ideas |
| define indefinite pronoun | refers to unidentfied persons places things or ideas |
| define interrogative pronoun | introdues a question |
| define relative pronoun | introdues a subordinate clause |
| who is the author of The Dangerous Game | Richard Connell |
| who is the main character | Rainford and Gereral Zaroff |
| who are the minor characters | Whitney Ivan |
| what is the conflict in the story | thta Rain ford needs to get away form the general so he doesn't get hunted |
| what is setting of the story | on a boat then on a gloomy dark island |
| who is the aothor of the Necklace | Guy de Maupassant |
| who are the main chatacters of the story | Monsieur Loisel Madame Loisel |
| who are the minor chatacters the story | Georges Ramponneau |
| what is the conflict in the story | Madame Loisel has no evening clothes or no jewels |
| what is the setting of the story | Paris in the late 1800s |
| who is the author if The Cask of Amontillado | Edgar Allen Poe |
| who is the main chatacter | Fortunato |
| who is the minor chatacter | Montresor |
| what is the conflict | Fortunato did something to Montresor |
| what is the setting | in the catacombs |
| who is author of call of the wild | Jack Lodon |
| what is his pen names | John Griffeth |
| who is the main chatacter | buck |
| who are the minor chatacters | Judge Miller Thorton Spitz |
| what is the setting of the story | Klondike area |
| what was the conflict | to show suoerioroty after seeing buck being treated speaial |
| who is author of call of the wild | Jack Lodon |
| what is his pen names | John Griffeth |
| who is the main chatacter | buck |
| who are the minor chatacters | Judge Miller Thorton Spitz |
| what is the setting of the story | Klondike area |
| what was the conflict | to show suoerioroty after seeing buck being treated speaial |
| who is author of call of the wild | Jack Lodon |
| what is his pen names | John Griffeth |
| who is the main chatacter | buck |
| who are the minor chatacters | Judge Miller Thorton Spitz |
| what is the setting of the story | Klondike area |
| what was the conflict | to show suoerioroty after seeing buck being treated speaial |
| who is author of call of the wild | Jack Lodon |
| what is his pen names | John Griffeth |
| who is the main chatacter | buck |
| who are the minor chatacters | Judge Miller Thorton Spitz |
| what is the setting of the story | Klondike area |
| what was the conflict | to show suoerioroty after seeing buck being treated speaial |
| who is author of call of the wild | Jack Lodon |
| what is his pen names | John Griffeth |
| who is the main chatacter | buck |
| who are the minor chatacters | Judge Miller Thorton Spitz |
| what is the setting of the story | Klondike area |
| what was the conflict | to show suoerioroty after seeing buck being treated speaial |
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