verbs A-H
Novel characters
stories
literary devices
verbs I-W
short story character
100

To write or chart

To graph

100

Represented Joseph Stalin

Napoleon

100

Man hunting man on island 

Most Dangerous Game

100

Comparison using like or as

Simile 

100

To capture image with camera

Photograph 

100

Famous hunter

Rainsford, Zaroff

200

To decay

To decompose

200

14 year old girl seeking revenge

Mattie Ross

200

Detective solving murder of two women

Murder on Rue Morgue

200

Using a word over and over again

Repetition, motif

200

To inform

To notify

200

Beautiful countess

Gabrielle

300

To secure or attach

To fasten

300

Represented Leon Trotsky

Snowball

300

Rich young woman became old and poor

Rose for Emily

300

Beginning with same sound starting several words

Alliteration 

300

To excuse, to forgive

To pardon

300

Man out walking

Leonard Mead

400

To adjust

To calibrate

400

One-eyed U S Marshall 

Reuben “Rooster” Cogburn

400

Young man steals from parents

Burglar s Christmas 

400

An object (thing or person) representing a concept or idea

Symbolism,, allegory

400

To shake or quiver

To tremble

400

Welcoming mother

Helen

500

To discard

To dispose, to dispense

500

Represented Aristocracy who fled Russia

Mollie

500

Allegory of Russian Revolution 

Animal Farm

500

Comparison stating one thing is something else which is similar to a degree

Metaphor 

500

To go backward becoming worse

To retrograde, to regress

500

Artist on death bed

Johnny, Behrman

600

To exit

To egress

600

Murderer with gun powder mark on cheek 

Tom Chaney

600

Wife lies to controlling husband

Useless Beauty

600

Government using words and images to influence citizens 

Propaganda 

600

To suppose

To surmise

600

Murdered boyfriend

Homer

700

To take by force

To exact

700

Represented pessimistic educated class

Benjamin

700

Distant employees assume difficult emotions of wealthy

Standard loneliness package

700

Reference to a work of literature commonly known in the culture

Allusion

700

To go beyond bounds of law or morality 

To transgress (encroach)

700

Consented to commit murder

Deepak

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