Vocabulary
Improbable means...
What is not likely to be true or happen?
A type of figurative language in which human qualities are given to something that is not human...
What is personification?
Which is not a similarity between Captain Jaggery and Mr. Doyle?
a. They both loathe their daughters.
b. They judge others by appearance and wealth.
c. They work for the same company.
d. They like things to be orderly.
What is they both loathe their daughters?
The two porters ran away from Charlotte and Mr. Grummage.
Someone sneaks up a rope on to the Seahawk.
What is realizes there is a stowaway?
Charlotte records on the ships log that..
What is Hollybrass and Jaggery died honorably during the hurricane?
Something to happen suddenly and unexpectedly...
What is abruptly?
A simile is...
What is a type of figurative language that compares two unlike things using the words like or as?
After Charlotte has been with her family for several weeks, she decides to:
The Two porters ran away from Charlotte and Mr. Grummage.
Zachariah offers Charlotte dirk and insists she keep it.
What is there may be danger ahead on this particular voyage?
When Charlotte first gets off the ship she wants...
What is Charlotte wants to feel accepted?
A formal promise...
What is an oath?
A type of figurative language that compares two unrelated things and does not use connecting words...
What is a metaphor?
Charlotte tries to save Captain Jaggery when he is falling overboard by
What is reaching out her hand to save Jaggery?
Often described as nervous. Seems to always be looking over his shoulder.
What is Keetch has been Captain Jaggery's informant from the beginning?
Charlotte's father responds to Charlotte's journal by...
What is by burning it and forbids her to discuss it with anyone?
Malodorous means...
What is smelling very unpleasant?
"The skin of the old man's chest hung loose and wrinkled like a ragged burlap sack" is an example of...
What is a simile?
Who said this quote? "A sailor chooses the wind that takes the ship from a safe port...but...winds have a mind of their own. Be careful of the wind you choose."
What is Zachariah?
"I returned the knife--still wrapped in my handkerchief--to its hiding place under my mattress.
As far as I was concerned, it could stay there and be forgotten
Alas, such would not be the case."
What is Captain Jaggery using the knife at trial?
Charlotte asks her maids to call her by her first name because...
What is she is lonely and wants to make new friends?
To say or do something you know will annoy someone so that they react in an angry way...
What is provoke?
"The sea kept snatching at me, trying to pull me down while I dangled there, kicking..." is an example of...
What is personification?
Who said this quote? "Somehow your teachers there filled your mind with the unfortunate capacity to invent the most outlandish, not to say unnatural tales...An American tutor, miss, shall instill a little order in your mind."
What is Mr. Doyle?
"The captain hurried me past the crew--none of them whom would look me in the eye--and instructed me to sit in the chair saying it would serve as the prisoner's dock."
What is the crew would not defend Charlotte during the trial?
An important theme for this story is...
What is never to judge a book by its cover?