Vocab 1
Found guilty of a crime
Convicted
Rough in voice or manner
gruff
No signs of life; neglected
desolate
Stanly is being bullied by a student named Derrick. What type of conflict?
Character vs character (man vs man)
Stanley's mouth was as dry and parched as the lake.
What type of figurative language?
Simile
Empty or open space
vacancy
Sad and lonely; hopeless
forlorn
making no sense; foolish
preposterous
Stanley is trying to decide whether to give the gold tube to X-Ray or show it to the warden himself. What type of conflict?
Man vs self (internal conflict)
The campers are told that if they try to escape "You will be buzzard food"
What type of figuartive language?
metaphor
to raise or open with a lever
pry
showing a superior attitude
smug
designs on the surface of glass or metal
etched
When the sun comes up, and the temperature rises, the job of digging the hole becomes much more difficult. What kind of conflict?
Man vs Nature
First hole completed "Only ten million to go"
What type of figurative language?
Hyperbole
unreasonable suspicious or distrusting
paranoid
force someone to leave a place
evict
dried out from heat and lack of moisture
parched
Stanley is convicted unfairly for a crime he did not commit. What type of conflict?
Man vs Society
"Time flies" when you are having fun
What type of figurative language?
Idiom
unnatural in an odd or ugly way
grotesque
shelter or protection from danger or distress
refuge
sentenced to a severe punishment
condemned
The Yelnats family is always finding themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time due to curse placed on them by Madam Zeroni. What type of conflict?
Man vs supernatural
It was so hot that "the air itself was sweating"
Name TWO types of figurative language
Hyperbole AND Personification