Vocab
The meaning of the word haggle
What is to argue about a price?
The subject of the Rocking-Horse Winner
What is greed?
One example of an idiom from "The Rocking-Horse Winner"
What is "as sure as eggs", "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush", or "spinning yarn"?
Synonym for disparage
What is belittle?
Whisper in "The Rocking-Horse Winner"
What is symbol?
The meaning of the word obscure
What is little-known?
The primary theme in "The Rocking-Horse Winner"
What is the love of money leads to death?
Appeals to the reader's senses
What is imagery?
Synonym for prostrate
What is horizontal?
The color green
What is symbolizes luck and money?
The meaning of the word iridescent
What is showing rainbowlike colors?
The object that whispers in "The Rocking-Horse Winner"
What is the house?
The point of greatest emotional intensity or suspense in a plot
What is climax?
Antonym for pique
What is soothe?
greed
What is the subject?
The meaning of the word overwrought
What is overly-excited?
What the whispers do when Paul's mother receives the five thousand pounds
What is they got worse?
When there is a contrast between what the reader expects to happen and what actually happens
What is situational irony?
Antonym for arable?
What is infertile?
When Paul is 'sure'
When he "gets there" on his rocking-horse
The meaning of the word remonstrate
What is to protest?
The rocking-horse symbolizes
What is greed, an instrument of supernatural forces, or Paul's desire for his mother's love?
When the reader knows something that the character does not
What is dramatic irony
Mrs. Arnold's favorite color