English Mid-Term Exam
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 The Mustache | Robert Cormier |
| The Treasure of Lemon Brown | Walter Dean Myers. |
| Too Soon a Woman | Dorothy M. Johnson |
| The Fun they Had | Isaac Asimov |
| The Drummer boy of Shiloh | Ray Bradbury |
| Lamb to the Slaughter | Roald Dahl |
| The Landlady | Roald Dahl |
| The Tell-Tale-Heart | Edgar Allan Poe |
| Apprehensive | uneasy, fearful of what might happen. |
| Bewildering | to become confused |
| Bleak | charmless and without hope |
| Defiance | bold resistance to authority |
| Dumbfounded | made speechless with amazement |
| Gallantly | brave and Nobel |
| Premonition | a strong feeling that something is going to happen. |
| Ruefully | done with regret and sorrow; mournfully |
| Unceasingly | continuously, done without stopping |
| Winced | drew back in pain, flinched. |
| Acquired | gained, came into possession of |
| Clammy | moist, cold and damp |
| Gingerly | with great care or caution |
| Glaring | conspicuous, noticeable |
| Incredulous | not inclined to believe |
| Irresistibly | incapable of being irritated |
| Nonchalantly | casually, without care or concern |
| Rarities | unusual |
| Reckless | utterly unconcerned, very careless |
| Roguishly | mischievously like a rascal |
| Sagely | wisely |
| Sarcastically | mocking |
| Stocky | thickest solid, sturdy |
| Sympathetic | caring |
| Unfathomable | difficult to understand |
| Plot | main events |
| Setting | type of surrounding where something takes place |
| Character | a person who plays a part in something |
| Characterization | features of |
| Author | the writer of something |
| Climax | the most intense part of something |
| Conflict | argument |
| External conflict | struggle between a person and an outside force |
| Internal conflict | mental struggle |
| Description | representation or account of a person |
| Dialect | a particular form of a language, that is peculiar to a certain region |
| Dialogue | the talk between characters |
| Fiction | not real |
| Figure of speech | the way of putting something |
| Flashback | to think back to something that happened in the past |
| Foreshadowing | giving clues that something may happen later on |
| Idiom | form of expression natural to someone |
| Imagery | to picture something that you read in your mind |
| Metaphor | a figure of speech when a word is applied to an object |
| Narration | give a spoken account of |
| Nonfiction | real |
| Personification | giving human traits to no living objects |
| Point of view | the way you see something |
| Prose | spoken language in its ordinary form |
| Protagonist | the leading character |
| Style | a manner of doing something |
| Suspense | keep waiting for something to happen |
| Symbol | things that stand for something |
| Theme | the subject of a talk |
| Tone | a manner of expression in writing |
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