Literary Terms
Nouns & Pronouns
Personal Narrative
Lamb to the Slaughter Vocabulary
Lamb to the Slaughter
100
antagonist
What is the term for the "bad guy" in the story?
100
noun
What is a person, place, or thing?
100
A good well-developed paragraph
What is 3-5 sentences?
100
a British term for wrench
What is a spanner?
100
the protagonist in the story
Who is Mary Maloney?
200
setting
What is the term for where the story takes place?
200
pronoun
What part of speech takes the place of a noun?
200
the three parts of an essay
What is introduction, body, conclusion?
200
full of complete happiness and joy.
What is blissful?
200
the murder weapon in the story
What is a leg of lamb?
300
conflict
What is a synonym for problem that is one of our literary terms?
300
concrete noun
What kind of noun is something that you can see, hear, taste, smell, or touch?
300
to skip space before writing an introductory sentence in a paragraph
What is to indent?
300
a natural impulse
What is instinct?
300

peas, potatoes, and cheesecake

What did Mary Maloney buy at the grocery store?

400
climax
What is the rising action in the story called?
400
efers back to the subject of the sentence
What is a reflexive pronoun?
400
this is used to hook your reader and introduce your topic
What is an introduction paragraph?
400
the term for peacefully free from interruption or disturbance
What is placid?
400
the grocer's name
What is Sam?
500
irony
What is a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result?
500
is added for for extra emphasis to the sentence
What is an intensive pronoun?
500
is used to lead into the next paragraph or idea
What is a transition?
500
Jello would be an example of this term.
What is congealed?
500
were exasperated in the story
Who were the detectives?
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