Medical Terms
Literary terms
"ROAR"
From bad to worse
Shades of Meaning
100
spreading from one person to another, but will not last for too long
What is "epidemic"?
100
the place and time of a story
What is "setting"?
100
I see it now
What is "I understand"?
100
a quarrelsome, overbearing person who repeatedly intimidates smaller or weaker people
What is a "bully"?
100
"the gaping jaws of death"
What is "danger"?
200
an infectious agent that causes the spreading of a disease
What is a "virus"?
200
the lesson on life that we learn from a story
What is "theme"?
200
"I fell for everything"
What is "I believed everything"?
200
clash, confrontation, disagreement
What is "conflict"?
200
" brush off the dust"
What is " to ignore"?
300
epidemic over a large area and often scary; universal
What is "pandemic"?
300
the summary of a paragraph or of a story in one sentence
What is "main idea"?
300
" I bite my tongue"
What is " I won't say a word"
300
to provoke a person or animal playfully
What is " to tease"?
300
"Cold comfort"
What is "This doesn't really help"?
400
to contaminate with a disease or affect someone's thinking,actions, or feelings
What is "infect"?
400
the feeling created in the reader by the writer's choice of words and tone
What is "mood"?
400
" that was too much for me"
What is "It pushed me past my breaking point"
400
an offensive, selfish, nasty person
What is a "mean person"?
400
"You don't run my world"
What is "You are not my boss"?
500
to treat, to eliminate a disease
What is "cure"?
500
the choice of words that express the narrator's feelings towards his or her story and characters
What is "tone"?
500
'I deserved the good things that followed"
What is "I earned my stripes"?
500
to start something in a bold, energetic, vigoros, often violent manner
What is " to be aggressive"?
500
" I'll just comb you our of my curls"
What is "I'll ignore you"?
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