vocab
vocab
vocab
literay devices
elements of a story
100
smug satisfaction
What is gloating?
100
enough
What is sufficient?
100
Barely
What is scarcely?
100
"If he be Mr. Hyde," he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek."
What is a pun?
100
It was a nut to crack for many, what these two could see in each other, or what subject they could find in common.
What is characterization?
200
Wicked...evil.
What is vile?
200
to stand watch
What is vigilance?
200
Gloomy...depressed...somber...melancholy...silent.
What is sullen?
200
...the street shone out in contrast to its dingy neighbourhood, like a fire in a forest...
What is simile?
200
I knew myself, at the first breath of this new life, to be more wicked, tenfold more wicked, sold a slave to my original evil; and the thought, in that moment, braced and delighted me like wine.
What is character?
300
A person who inherits.
What is heir?
300
Failing to live according to your beliefs or your teachings.
What is hypocrisy?
300
immoral or evil habit
What is a vice?
300
...set forth in the direction of Cavendish Square, that citadel of medicine...
What is metaphor?
300
It was thus rather the exacting nature of my aspirations than any particular degradation in my faults, that made me what I was and, with even a deeper trench than in the majority of men, severed in me those provinces of good and ill which divide and compound man's dual nature.
What is theme?
400
religious
What is pious?
400
Too concerned with rules and details.
What is pedantic?
400
a person under the guidance of someone interested in his or her career.
What is a protege?
400
...and the person that drew the cheque is the very pink of the proprieties...
What is alliteration?
400
Poole swung the axe over his shoulder; the blow shook the building, and the red baize door leaped against the lock and hinges. A dismal screech, as of mere animal terror, rang from the cabinet. Up went the axe again, and again the panels crashed and the frame bounded; four times the blow fell; but the wood was tough and the fittings were of excellent workmanship; and it was not until the fifth, that the lock burst in sunder and the wreck of the door fell inwards on the carpet.
What is plot?
500
feeling of doubt
What is qualm?
500
Someone who chooses to stay isolated.
What is a recluse?
500
to give in
What is succumbed?
500
The fog still slept on the wing above the drowned city...
What is personification?
500
A great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven, but the wind was continually charging and routing these embattled vapours; so that as the cab crawled from street to street, Mr. Utterson beheld a marvellous number of degrees and hues of twilight; for here it would be dark like the back-end of evening; and there would be a glow of a rich, lurid brown, like the light of some strange conflagration; and here, for a moment, the fog would be quite broken up, and a haggard shaft of daylight would glance in between the swirling wreaths.
What is setting?
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