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Vocabulary Verbs
Vocabulary Nouns and Adjectives
Irony and Ambiguity
The Magi
The Gifts
100
A verb which means to urge someone to an action, usually negative.
What is instigates?
100
When someone is described to be able to move with ease, he or she is considered
What is agile?
100
This describes the difference between what we expect or what seems suitable and what actually happens.
What is irony?
100
What the Young family has not very much of.
What is money?
100
What Della sells in order to afford her husband's present.
What is her hair?
200
To search thoroughly.
What is ransacking?
200
Another word for a waterfall?
What is a cascade?
200
This occurs when a character says something and yet means the opposite.
What is verbal irony?
200
The story proves that "this" is true for this couple.
What is their unselfish love for each other?
200
What Della purchases for Jim.
What is the fob chain? (for his watch)
300
To long for something.
What is coveted? (To covet)
300
When something is closely inspected, it is looked at with
What is scrutiny?
300
This describes an event that is not just surprising, but is actually contrary to what we expect to happen.
What is situational irony?
300
Jim's salary after his pay cut.
What is $20 per week?
300
What, ironically, Jim sold to buy Della's present.
What is his watch?
400
When something is slightly burned.
What is singed?
400
Della's fingers are described as moving quickly, or
What is nimble?
400
This occurs when the viewer or reader knows what is going to happen to a character, but the character does not.
What is dramatic irony?
400
What physical descriptive word describes both Jim and Della?
What is thin?
400
What Jim bought for Della for Christmas.
What are combs for her long beautiful hair?
500
When something is made less important, or the value is lowered.
What is depreciate?
500
When good judgement is shown in what one says or does; especially in being silent or careful.
What is discreet?
500
This offers us several conflicting consequences or meanings and leave us, the readers, to sort it out.
What is ambiguity?
500
What the "D" stands for in James D. Young
What is "Dillingham"?
500
What Della spent on Jim's present.
What is $21?