DEFINITION
Gnarled
roughened, as from age or work
threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
Ominous
The mans hand was _____ from many years of working with machines.
Gnarled
knotty
gnarled
Bodega
a small grocery store
rascals; shameless people
Scalawags
John was sitting on the ____ in front of his house because he got kicked out.
Stoop
Grocery store
Bodega
Stoop
a porch or staircase at the entrance of a building
a style of music developed from southern African American songs
Blues
The ______ stole everything from the store.
Scalawag
Porch
Stoop
Inferences
when a writer provides clues to the reader for them to make educated
narrator is outside the story and tells what the character thinks, sees, feels
Third-person limited point of view
The _____ frame of death scared Ebeneezer Scrooge
Ominous.
Threatening
Ominous