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Ransom of Red Chief
There Will Come Soft Rains
The Landlady
Vocabulary
VMA'S
100
Sam and Bill's plan to make a quick $2000.
What is kidnap a banker's only son, Johnny Dorset?
100
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is spoken of as if it had human qualities.
What is personification?
100
The use of clues or hints suggesting events that will occur later in the plot.
What is foreshadowing?
100
near; next to; adjoining
What is adjacent?
100
Won most awards at 2010 VMA's.
Who is Lady GaGa?
200
State where the story takes place.
What is Alabama?
200
Destroyed the city.
What is the atomic bomb?
200
Bath, England
What is the setting of the story?
200
to fix up; make new again
What is renovate?
200
Conflict between these two began at the 2009 VMA's.
Who are Taylor Swift and Kanye West?
300
The dollar amount Bill and Sam end up paying Johnny's father to take him back.
What is $250?
300
Chronological
What is the text structure of the story?
300
Christopher Mulholland and Gregory Temple.
What were the only other names in the guest book?
300
Routine; ordinary; boring
What is humdrum?
300
Won Best Hip-Hop Video.
Who is Eminem?
400
A contrast between expectation and reality.
What is irony?
400
10:00 PM
What is the time the house began to die?
400
Seventeen
What is Billy Weaver's age?
400
to break up; disturb
What is disrupt?
400
Performed with Drake at the 2010 VMA's.
Who are Mary J. Blige and Swizz Beatz?
500
Narrated the story in first person.
Who is Sam?
500
The year the story takes place.
What is 2026?
500
A person who stuffs dead animals.
What is a taxidermist?
500
to fling or hurl forcefully
What is hurtle?
500
Hosted the 2010 VMA's.
Who is Chelsea Handler?