Vocabulary
Plot or Exposition
Vocabulary 2.0
Character
Setting
100
in a way that is intensely passionate and eager
What is ardently?
100
the soldier who have capture Farquhar were from this Army
What is the Northern?
100
dangerous and risky
What is perilous?
100
the main character
Who is Peyton Farquhar?
100
the state where this story took place
What is Alabama?
200
acting as a point around which other things turn
What is pivotal?
200
He tried to destroy the bridge
Who is Peyton Farquhar?
200
deeply piercing
What is poignant?
200
he is a well-to-do planter
Who is Peyton Farquhar?
200
the war that is occurring
What is the Civil War?
300
a scene the interrupts the normal chronological sequence
What is a flashback?
300
the amount of time it took Farquhar to run home
What is he did not?
300
harmful, evil
What is malign?
300
Peyton Farquhar was this age
What is 35?
300
the body of water the the bridge is on
What is Owl Creek?
400
who, whom, whose, which
What is a pronoun?
400
Farquhar longed to be this
What is soldier in the Confederate army?
400
happily, sadly, relatively, squarely
What is an adverb?
400
he hit Farquhar in the back of Farquhar's head
Who is nobody?
400
the time that elapses during the story
What is a few minutes?
500
a subordinate clause that follows a noun
What is an adjective clause?
500
Farquhar was hoping to destroy the bridge by doing this
What is burn it?
500
bridge, poignant and malign all have these
What are silent letters?
500
he tricked Farquhar
Who was the Federal Scout?
500
the distance that Farquhar swam
What is ZERO?
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