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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| stealth | secret actions or movements |
| paddy | FLOoded field where rice is grown |
| fecund | producing much growth |
| skirted | to go around the outside of |
| pretended | acted like somemone else |
| diffuse | unfocused |
| courage | strength and determination |
| inertia | tendency to continue what one is doing |
| mortar | muzzle loading firing weapond, for short ranges |
| giggles | uncontrolable laughter |
| prospects | chances or oportunities |
| incessantly | continually or constantly |
| pauper | a poor person |
| aghast | with shock or horror |
| gamut | an entire range or series |
| askew | crooked or slanted |
| paste | imitation or fake gems |
| seine | river in paris |
| franc | monetary unit in france |
| character | people in story or personallity trait. |
| stealth | secret actions or movements |
| paddy | FLOoded field where rice is grown |
| fecund | producing much growth |
| skirted | to go around the outside of |
| pretended | acted like somemone else |
| diffuse | unfocused |
| courage | strength and determination |
| inertia | tendency to continue what one is doing |
| mortar | muzzle loading firing weapond, for short ranges |
| giggles | uncontrolable laughter |
| prospects | chances or oportunities |
| incessantly | continually or constantly |
| pauper | a poor person |
| aghast | with shock or horror |
| gamut | an entire range or series |
| askew | crooked or slanted |
| paste | imitation or fake gems |
| seine | river in paris |
| franc | monetary unit in france |
| character | people in story or personallity trait. |
| quarry | a person or thing who is in the aim of attack |
| tangible | perceptible by the senses especialy touch, |
| suspense | exited anticipation of an aproaching climax |
| inferior | of lesser qaulity |
| condone | excuse overlook or make allowences for |
| plot | a secret scheme to do something |
| imperitave | requiring attention or action, a mood tha expresses an intention to influence the listeners behavior |
| uncanny | beyond what is natural a specific nack for |
| scruple | hesitate on moral grounds, a unit of apothecary eqaul to 20 grains |
| zealous | marked by active interest or inthusiasm |
| internal and external conflicts | internal conflicts= problem with self or maoral boundrie, extrernal conflict= problem with outside setting or another charachter |
| foreshadow | indicate by signs |
| elements of the plot | Exposition/Introduction: 3) Climax: 4) Falling Action or resolution: |
| aperture | a device that controls the amount of light admited |
| preclude | keep from happening or arising |
| immolation | killing or offering AS an sacrifice |
| termination | a place where something ends or completes |
| repose | a disposition free from stress or emotion |
| abscond | run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along |
| impunity | exemption from punishment or loss . |
| niter | (KNO3) used especially as a fertilizer and explosive |
| irony | witty language used to convey insults or scorn; |
| dramatic irony | Dramatic irony is when the words and actions of the characters of a work of literature have a different meaning for the reader than they do for the characters. |
| verbal irony | Verbal irony is a statement in which the meaning that a speaker employs is sharply different from the meaning that is ostensibly expressed. |
| setting | time, location , and everything in which a story takes place |
| mood | dark, gloomy. vengefull |
| imagery | vivid descriptions of the catacombs |
| suspense | when he is sealing the tunnel with mortar |
| coat of arms | no one shall insult me without impunity |
| pen name | edgar allen poe |
| static and dynamic character | montresor=static fortunato=dynamic |
| style | dark vengfull sardonic |
| voice | impromtu |
| Flashback | where a story revisits a different place |
| realism | how the author makes the story more authentic, and realistic |
| inferences | what is meant to be understood but what is not said |
| action verb | a verb that is an action ie jump, run |
| transistive verb | transitive verb is a verb that requires both a direct subject and one or more objects. |
| intransitive verb | kick, want, paint, write, eat, clean |
| linking verb | Linking verbs do not express action. Instead, they connect the subject of the verb to additional information about the subject, was |
| auxiliary or helping verb | Helping verbs or auxiliary verbs such as will, shall, may, might, can, could, must, ought to, should, would, used to, need |
| verb phrases | A verb phrase is a combination of a verb and a particle |
| personal pronouns | A pronoun that refers to a particular person, group, or thing. |
| singular pronouns | another, anybody, anyone, anything, each, either, everybody, everyone, everything, little, much, neither, nobody |
| plural pronouns | They is a plural pronoun |
| antecedent pronoun | The antecedent of a pronoun is the word the pronoun refers to |
| reflive pronoun | A reflexive pronoun is a pronoun that is preceded by the noun or pronoun to which it refers (its antecedent) within the same clause |
| intensive pronoun | intensive pronouns are the words myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves |
| demonstrative pronoun | Demonstrative pronouns (this, these, that, those). |
| indefinate pronoun | indefinite pronouns are all, another, any, anybody, anyone |
| interrogative pronoun | interrogative pronoun is a pronoun used in order to ask a question what, which, who, whom |
| relative pronoun | The relative pronouns (who/whoever/which/that) |
| common noun | common noun is a noun that refers to a person, thing and place. |
| proper noun | A proper noun or proper name is a noun representing unique entities (such as London, Jupiter, John Hunter, or Toyota) |
| concrete noun | Ice cream, for example, is a concrete noun. You can see the pink. You can taste the berry flavor. |
| abstract noun | |
| singular noun | |
| plural noun | |
| collective noun | |
| compound noun | |
| possessive noun |
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