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Vocabulary
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English stuff that you better know!
Characters
Multiple Choice on the TEST!!!
100
vague or unclear
What is obscured
100
Another girl might have pulled it off, someone with more ___________ than she, someone used to walking beside attractive boys and chatting gaily and smiling disarmingly.
What is sophistication
100
a play on words
What is pun
100
Who is "Unpopular"
Who is Susan
100
How did Mr. Griffin die?
What is a heart attack.
200
walk or move unsteadily
What is staggered
200
In the distance, the rugged Sandia Mountains rose in faint outline, almost _____________ by pinkish haze.
What is obscured
200
a situation that may end up in quite a different way than what is generally anticipated.
What is irony
200
Who is pregnant?
Who is Mrs. Griffin.
200
Does David's grandmother view his recent behavior as awkward, scary, suspicious, or threatening?
What is suspicious.
300
characteristics of secretly planning
What is conspiratorial
300
But Mr. Griffin was always there, as reliable as the bell itself, stiff and straight in a navy blue suit, white shirt and tie, his hair dark hair slicked flat against his head, his mouth firm and _____________________ beneath the small, neatly trimmed mustache.
What is uncompromising
300
a literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.
What is foreshadowing
300
Whose father abandoned his family?
Who is David.
300
“Why, you’re not Davy!” she said to the boy with funny eyes. Based on the information in this sentence who has come into David’s grandmother’s bedroom.
Who is Mark Kinney.
400
the process or result of becoming more complex
What is sophistication
400
Other teachers might ____________ in late, delayed in the teacher’s lounge for a last drag on a cigarette or a final swallow of morning coffee.
What is saunter
400
_________ conflict arises as soon as a character experiences two opposite emotions or desires; usually virtue or vice, or good and evil inside him
What is internal
400
Who needs to be liked by everyone?
Who is Betsy.
400
[Mark] looped the cord around Susan’s wrists and pulled it so tight that she gasped in pain. “…Sue and I are going to have a little talk…I left your keys in the car. I didn’t think we’d be tied up here so long.” What literary device does the author use in these sentences?
What is a pun.
500
vigorously
What is vehemently
500
It was a lintless face, built on a triangle with the skin stretched _______ and smooth from the wide cheekbones to the sharply pointed chin.
What is taut
500
_______ conflict is marked by a characteristic involvement of an action wherein a character finds himself in struggle with those outside forces that hamper his progress.
What is external
500
Who is calculating (plans every move)?
Who is Mark Kinney.
500
What does the reader discover about Mark as he sets fire to the curtains in Susan’s house?
What is he set the fire that killed his father.