L.A. For The Vocab Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
Flashback | |
Flashback | A sudden moment where you remember something that happened earlier. |
Flashback | Noah remembers how he knew what calligraphy was. |
Allusion | |
Allusion | Casually reference something that's famous. |
Allusion | Rafael's cherubs T.S. is Tillie's cat and is compared to T.S. Elliot Alice in Wonderland~ Cheshire cat |
Simile | |
Simile | Using like or as to compare two things |
Simile | Century Village is like a theme park for old people. |
Point of view | |
Point of view | The prospective of which the story is told. |
Point of view | Ms. Olinski~ Third person narrative Noah~ First person view |
Foreshadowing | |
Foreshadowing | Your hinting what will come to pass. |
Foreshadowing | Mrs. Olinski didn't know why she chose the four she did, but she will find out. |
Pun | |
Pun | Two words that sound alike, or are the same with different meanings that are being used humorously. |
Pun | I would be living in the state of divorce in New York. Ginger is a genius of her genus. |
Idioms | |
Idioms | An expression beyond it's literal meaning. |
Idioms | It's raining cats and dogs Your driving me up the wall Hit the road Break a leg |
Personification | |
Personification | When you give something nonhuman a human trait. |
Personification | The windshield wipers danced back and forth. The rain battered at the ground. |
Decorum | |
Decorum | Good taste; Polite behavior |
Decorum | We all behaved with decorum when the Mayor visited our school |
Domicile | |
Domicile | Legal residence; home |
Domicile | I had to list the address of my permanent domicile on my passport application. |
Bickering | |
Bickering | Squabbling |
Bickering | The children's constant bickering made the babysitter decide to find another job. |
Hovered | |
Hovered | Lingered |
Hovered | Our dog hovered protectively over her new litter of puppies. |
Podium | |
Podium | lectern |
Podium | The speaker was embarrassed when she tripped walking up to the podium. |
Incandescently | |
Incandescently | Radiantly |
Incandescently | When the actor saw his admiring fans, he smiled incandescently in their direction. |
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