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Context Clues
Lottery Vocabulary
Lottery Vocabulary
Literary Terms and Themes
Characters and Concepts
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The four types of these will often help you determine a word's meaning.
What is context clues
100
various items of significance used for a particular purpose
What is paraphernalia
100
to spend or give in abundance is to do it
What is profusely
100
The place and time the story takes place
What is setting
100
This person stood out because she arrived late to the lottery
Who is Tessie Hutchinson
200
This type normally has a word or words that contrast the word you are trying to define
What is antonyms
200
A teacher or parent would give these to students who don't do what they are supposed to
What are reprimands
200
students who fall asleep in class are usually
What is disengaged
200
Something used to represent something else within a story is
What is symbolism
200
Old Man Warren may have represented this in the story
What is tradition
300
Whenever you have specific instances of the word in question, your type is
What are examples
300
Something that seems as though it will never end
What is interminably
300
When you do something without thought, you are
What is perfunctory
300
To indicate before is called
What is foreshadowing
300
The children gathering stones in the town square is an example of
What is foreshadowing
400
Gleaning the meaning of the word from the sentence is when you understand it by
What is the general sense of the sentence
400
to challenge authority is to be
What is defiant
400
a synonym for loud and clamorous is
What is boisterous
400
When something you are not expecting to hear or see happens, it's
What is ironic
400
Winning is losing in the lottery. This makes it
What is ironic
500
Which type gives a word that means the same in meaning as the unknown one
What is synonyms
500
a happy person is a
What is jovial person
500
When you use this to make fun of, exaggerate, or ridicule something, you use
What is satire
500
The black box represented this in the story
What is death, fate, and/or sacrifice
500
Making fun of the tradition and the people who don't like change would be one example of
What is satire