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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| paddy | flooded feild where rice is grown |
| stealth | secret actions or movements |
| pretened | acted likesomeone eles |
| fecund | producing much growth |
| shirted | to go around the putside of |
| courage | strenght and determination |
| inertia | tendency to continue what one is doing |
| mortar | muzzle-loading firing weapon for short range |
| giggles | uncontrollable laughter |
| style | the way a poece of work is written |
| voice | the personality of the author |
| flashback | an account of what happened before the story started |
| realism | vivid descreption of whaat the character sees or does |
| inferences | something gathered but not out right said |
| aperture | an opening |
| preclude | to make impossible |
| subside | to decrese in amount |
| quarry | object of hunt |
| tangible | capable of being touched |
| suspence | exciment that reader gets when involved in a story |
| inferior | to overlook |
| condone | to forgive |
| plot | series of events in a story |
| imperative | obsclotely nessecary |
| uncanny | remarkable |
| conflict | a struggle |
| scruples | uneasyness |
| zealous | intenseety |
| foreshadow | a hint to suggest later events |
| impunity | freedom from penalty and secvetly |
| immolation | death or destrction |
| abscond | to go away suddenly and secretly |
| repose | to lie dead or at rest |
| termination | an end limit ot egde |
| subside | to decrease in amount or intensity settle down |
| prospects | chances of |
| incessantly | constantly without end |
| pauper | poor person |
| aghast | with shock or horror |
| Gamut | arrangement of numbers |
| askew | crooked slanted |
| paste | immitation jems |
| seine | a river goes through paris |
| Franc | monetary |
| character | person in a story |
| static | non moving |
| dynamic | moving person |
| diffuse | being at once verbose and ill-organized |
| niter | a white dust on walls |
| irony | contrast between appperence and reallity |
| dramitic | a plot device in which the audience’s or reader’s knowledge of events or individuals surpasses that of the characters |
| verbal | saying one thing but meaning another |
| setting | place time |
| mood | the feeling of the story |
| imagery | being able to see the story |
| suspense | waiting for the ending |
| coat of arms | family crest |
| elements of the plot | the way a story goes |
| internal | in the main char. |
| external | in the environment |
| pen name | code name |
| acton | doing something |
| linking | connecting tow verbs together |
| verb phrase | two or more verbs together |
| helping | helps describe something |
| common | known to show up |
| proper | people names |
| singular | one |
| plural | more than one |
| collective | as a groupe |
| compound | two nouns together |
| possessive | a particular thing person place |
| concrete | precived by the seces |
| abstract | quality or state |
| antecedent | noun the pronoun refers |
| reflexive | reflects of subject |
| intenseve | magnify intensify meaning |
| demonstrative | points out noun |
| indefinite | not definite |
| interrogative | asking a question |
| relative | intro sub clause |
| plural | more than one |
| singular | one |
| personal | subs as common or plural |
| transitive | a vreb has a direct object |
| intransitive | no direct object |
| the necklase | Gary de Maupassant Madum Rosesl Monsieur Madam forestier happy whit what you have do not covet others rich vs poor needs vs wants Paris, 1880 run down aparments desperate sad dont want what you cant have and dont kill to get it |
| Cast of Amontillado | Edgar Allin Poe Dont be insulted easly dont insult others Fortunato Montresor gloomy sinister ominous mood is gloomy and scary costumes drinking servents not home italy carnival basement killed in basement because he insulted someone |
| charming Billy | East Vietnam Tim Obrain faught in the war anixous political unrest 1965-1973 Pvt first class Paul Berlin billy boy watkins a amn remembers what happened during thewar and keeps thinking bout it |
| call of the wild | Alaskan frontier buck john thortian spits John Grifen Chaney late 1800's klondike buck fights spits |
| the most dangerious game | Zaroff ranisford ship trap island whitney hot weather fell into water Ivan deff and Richaed Connell dumb ranisford gets hunted by zaroff |
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