Literary Terms
Vocabulary
SAT
DGP
Short Stories
100
One who grows to a higher level of understanding through the plot.
What is a dynamic character?
100
An enigma
What is a mystery or puzzle?
100
What is feeling repelled or wanting to avoid?
Averse
100
What is the sentence structure? What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?
simple sentence structure.
100
What are the Whites' lives like in the beginning of the story?
The Whites are content with their lives.
200
has only one or two qualities.
What is a static character?
200
Incorrigible
What is an impossible to control adjective?
200
Ambivalence
What is indecision?
200
What is the object of the preposition of in the sentence The hair of the affrighted pedagogue rose upon his head with terror?
Pedagogue is the object of the preposition.
200
What is the spell that the fakir put on the paw?
to not tempt fate
300
three dimensional.
What is a round character?
300
Auspicious
What is likely to succeed?
300
Eractic
What is unpredictable or to differ from the norm?
300
What is the purpose of the sentence My girls, will you give your breakfast as a Christmas present?
The purpose is interrogative.
300
Mr. Peters wanted a beautiful wife.
What is Mr. Peters' first wish in "The Third Wish?"
400
remains unchanged throughout the story.
What is a flat character?
400
Augment
What is to make larger or increase?
400
Loquacious
What is talkative?
400
What is the subject in the clause; Depreciate other persons' dinners?
The subject is the understood "you."
400
What is the best prediction of Herbert? Herbert says he will never see the money his father wished for.
Herbert says he will never see the money his father wished for.
500
a main character in which the conflict occurs.
What is a protagonist?
500
Ominous
What is a sign of something bad?
500
Loathe
What is to hate or despise?
500
What is the pronoun that in the sentence He lay down on a wide bunk that stretched across the end of the room?
The pronoun is relative.
500
Dahl's dark humor came from a bad experience at boarding school.
What is the source of Dahl's dark humor?
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