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Literary Devices
Ghostly Questions
Mortal Questions
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A group that moves together
What is procession?
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To hold tightly
What is clench?
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What does Bod mean when he uses the idiom, "I think I've got Fear down"?
What is Bod understands how to use the technique of Fear on the Living to scare them.
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Mr. Pennyworth is dissapointed in Bod early in Chapter Four because he is unsuccessful at this.
What is Fading?
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Bod panics when he realizes he is all alone in the graveyard, but this calms him down.
What is the music he hears?
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Short curved sword.
What is cutlass?
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Sudden inward collapse?
What is implosion?
200
What are being compared in the following metaphor: "Now his [Silas’] face was a book written in a language long forgotten…”
What is Silas' face as if it were a book?
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The dead will not discus the Dance Macabray for this reason.
What is they are forbidden to speak of it?
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The living will not discuss the Dance Macabray for this reason.
What is they do not remember dancing it?
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Pertaining to a city or town?
What is municipal?
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A ban
What is prohibition?
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Time and tide wait for no man” is best described as this,a short statement that sums up a general truth or rule of behavior.
What is a maxim?
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This is why Bod takes the brooch from the Sleer's barrow.
What is to pawn it, and use the money to buy Liza a headstone?
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Bod does this, which gets him noticed at Old Town School.
What is he concocts a plan to help a victim stand up to his bullies. Other victims use his plan as well, and the bullies become angry with Bod, deciding to teach him a lesson.
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Extreme Greed for Wealth
What is avarice?
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Tending to avoid commitment?
What is evasive?
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Considering the speaker's, remarks this is ironic about the man Jack and Mr. Dandy's coversation.
What is Jack and Mr.Dandy are discussing murdering a child, while the speaker discusses all the Good Deeds done by the convocation?
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This technique of the dead is most effective on Nick Farthing.
What is Dreamwalking?
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Bod brings treasure to Abanazer Bolger. The first treasure he presents Bolger with is this item.
What is the snakeskin brooch, a priceless treasure?
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Innocent; naive; honest.
What is guileless?
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Showy; elaborate
What is ornate?
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Silas uses elevated language in a conversation with an eight year old Bod. This is the reason he uses elevated language.
What is to discuss an unpleasant topic (suicide)?
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This technique of the dead is most successful on Mo Quilling.
What is Haunting?
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This is the way Bod himself is a treasure to Abanazer Bolger.
What is Bolger can turn Bod over to the man Jack, for some sort of reward?
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