Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Literary Terms
Literary Terms
Events
100
I was on my way to purchase a new Television but the ______ tone of the salesmen had made me decide not to buy the television.
What is brash?
100
Because taking a nap did not help, John had taken Aspirin to _______ the pain.
What is alleviate?
100
"Afghanistan is the land of Pashtuns. It always has been, always will be. We are the true Afghans, the pure Afghans, not this Flat-Nose here. His people pollute our homeland, our watan. They dirty our blood."
What is foreshadowing?
100
“Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.”
What is simile?
100
Amir's kite and the blue kite dueling in the sky and one falls down.
What is Amir's Victory?
200
Because I like doing hard work and having fun, I get _________ when I'm on a team with lazy people.
What is exasperated?
200
When his owner was being attacked, the dog had attacked in ______.
What is frenzied
200
“I am a baby in that photograph and Baba is holding me, looking tired and grim. I’m in his arms, but it’s Khan’s pinky that my fingers are curled around.”
What is imagery?
200
Pomegranate Tree
What is a metaphor?
200
Amir and Hassaan sit under a pomegranate tree and Amir asks Hassaan if he threw a pomegranate at him, would he fight back.
What is Amir's test on Hassaan?
300
An effect of the new disease spreading around town is having _____ skin.
What is sallow?
300
Because the warrior could not take the _______ of losing, he had committed suicide.
What is indignity?
300
Then his lips twisted, and, that time, I knew just what he was doing. He was smiling. Just as he had, emerging from his mother's womb.The swelling subsided, and the wound healed with time. Soon, it was just a pink jagged line running up from his lip. By the following winter, it was only a faint scar. Which was ironic. Because that was the winter that Hassan stopped smiling."
What is irony?
300
"But he's always buried in those books"
What is a hyperbole?
300
Baba finds out Hassan has stole his watch and Amir's birthday money that Amir secretly placed to rid Hassan and Ali.
What is Amir Framing Hassan?
400
Because school was canceled today, my friends and I decided to saunter through the park.
What is saunter?
400
Another ________ lecture by my parents will make me want to move out.
What is interminable?
400
“What does he know, that illiterate Hazara? He”ll never be anything but a cook. How dare he criticize you?”
What is satire?
400
The earth shook a little and we heard the rat-a-tat-tat of gunfire"
What is an onomatopoeia
400
Amir recieves a gift of a biography about Hitler.
What is Assef's gift?
500
John thought that a nap could _______ his fever.
What is palliative?
500
If you ______ even once, you will lose the race!
What is falter?
500
"Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years.”
What is flashback?
500
"The gun roared"
What is personification?
500
Rahim Khan and a Hazara girl would secretly meet at night and think about their future together. But when Rahim told his father, he became enraged and sent her family away.
What is Rahim's conversation with Amir?
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