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vocabulary
vocabulary
literary terms
literary terms
events
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offensively bold
What is Brash?
100
free from guile; free of deceit
What is guileless?
100
A design or pattern
What is motif?
100
a general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc.
What is tone?
100
Hassan is a hazara so this is what happened in the book.
Why did hassan get raped?
200
having calluses; having skin made tough and thick through wear
What is calloused?
200
The making turbid by stirring up the sediments of; be agitated
What is roil?
200
A comparison of one thing and another thing.
What is simile?
200
the place or type of surroundings where something is positioned or where an event takes place.
What is setting?
200
Amir is too guilty of what he has done. He’s considering himself living with this lie and he has no one to share it with. Towards Hassan, whenever he’s around, Amir always feels confused. “Because when he was around, the oxygen seeped out of the room. My chest tightened and I couldn’t draw enough air, I’d stand there, gasping in my own little airless bubble o atmosphere.
Why do you think Amir no longer wanted to play with Hassan?
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A verb that provides physical relief, as from pain
What is alleviate?
300
greatly annoyed; out of patience
What is exasperated?
300
A literary element that characters may be presented by means of description, through their actions, speech, thoughts and interactions with other characters.
What is characterization?
300
exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
What is hyperbole?
300
Rahim Khan gave Amir a present which is a A leather notebook with golden covers. “It was a brown leather-bound notebook. I traced my fingers along the gold-colored stitching on the borders. I smelled the leather.”
What gift did Rahim Khan give amir?
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Feeling of angry or excitement or waking up
What is Roused?
400
tiresomely long; seemingly without end
What is interminable?
400
Literary element thats a person, animal, or object regarded as representing or embodying a quality, concept, or thing.
What is personification?
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The opposite of what you thought was going to happen.
What is irony?
400
Amir hid couple of coins and the new watch Baba has brought for him as a birthday present under Hassan’s bed. He wanted to create a crime scene because when Baba found out about this, he would gather Hassan to his office and solve the problems. However, things turned out differently when Hassan said that he was the thief. Amir immediately felt shamed and coward because he has betrayed the loyalty of Hassan and Ali. “I flinched, like I’d been slapped. My heart sank and I almost blurted out the truth. Then I understood: This was Hassan’s final sacrifice for me.”
What did Amir hide under Hassan’s bed? Why?
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noun a careless leisurely gait; a leisurely walk (usually in some public place); verb walk leisurely and with no apparent aim
What is saunter?
500
the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary
What is reticence?
500
A literary element with the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
What is alliteration?
500
a sudden and disturbing vivid memory of an event in the past, typically as the result of psychological trauma or taking LSD.
What is a flashback?
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Hassan and Ali left because they could not live in the house anymore. Ali noticed the unusual relationship between Hassan and Amir since they rarely spoke to each other. Moreover, Ali wanted to protect Hassan from being “the bull eye” because he was always bullied by the kids in the neighborhood.
Why did Hassan and Ali leave?