Wednesday, 11/04/09 -- Checking: Vocabulary.
Notice: Outsiders projects are turn-inable
on Friday. Be careful about using that extra day, because literary KBARR
response is also due Friday.
Warm Up. Literary Terms. Exemption Round
II.
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"If you can picture a little dark puppy that
has been kicked too many times...you'll have Johnny." a) foreshadowing
b) flashback c) protagonist d) irony e) metaphor
f) simile g) theme h) NOTA
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"We were careful with our cigarettes--if that
old church ever caught fire there'd be no stopping it." a) foreshadowing
b) flashback c) protagonist d) irony e) metaphor
f) simile g) theme h) NOTA
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"I remembered my mother..." a) foreshadowing
b) flashback c) protagonist d) irony e) metaphor
f) simile g) theme h) NOTA
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"I could fall in love with Dallas Winston."
a) foreshadowing b) flashback c) protagonist d) irony
e) metaphor f) simile g) theme h) NOTA
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"...everything looked unreal, like a scene out
of a JD movie..." a) foreshadowing b) flashback c) protagonist
d) irony e) metaphor f) simile g) theme h) NOTA
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"Quiet, soft-spoken little Johnny...had taken
a human life." a) foreshadowing b) flashback c)
protagonist d) irony e) metaphor f) simile g) theme
h) NOTA
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"Someone should tell their side of the story,
and maybe people would understand then and wouldn't be so quick to judge..."
a) foreshadowing b) flashback c) protagonist d) irony
e) metaphor f) simile g) theme h) NOTA
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"It was almost four months ago..." a) foreshadowing
b) flashback c) protagonist d) irony e) metaphor
f) simile g) theme h) NOTA
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"They were all tough as nails and looked it."
a) foreshadowing b) flashback c) protagonist d) irony
e) metaphor f) simile g) theme h) NOTA
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"...half the hoods I know are pretty decent guys...and
a lot of Socs are just cold-blooded mean--but people usually go by looks."
a) foreshadowing b) flashback c) protagonist d) irony
e) metaphor f) simile g) theme h) NOTA
Go over vocabulary
homework.
Vocabulary Pretest.
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Sometimes Les Goodman had ____, and would get
up and look at the stars in the middle of the night. a) dissent
b) revelation c) insomnia d) fluster e) scapegoat
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The replays of the auto wreck _____ TV watchers
all over the country. a) assented b) transfixed c) insomnia
d) flustered e) scapegoated
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"Let's get it all out. Let's pick out every ____
of every man, woman, and child on this street." a) dissent
b) revelation c) metamorphosis d) idiosyncrasy e) scapegoat
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"You're standing here all set to crucify--all
set to find a _____--all desperate to point some kind of a finger at a
neighbor." a) fluster b) revelation c) metamorphosis
d) idiosyncrasy e) scapegoat
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"They'll probably think we're crazy or something.
A little power failure and right away we get all ____ (ed) and everything."
a) assent b) revelation c) metamorphosis d) fluster
e) scapegoat
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"In this brief fraction of a moment, they take
the first step toward performing a _______ that changes people from a group
into a mob." a) persistent b) revelation c) metamorphosis
d) idiosyncrasy e) transfixed
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Almost everybody has one or more _____(s) that
people who don't know them would consider "weird." a) dissent
b) assent c) metamorphosis d) idiosyncrasy e) scapegoat
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My little boy is very ____ when he wants something,
he keeps trying and trying. a) persistent b) revelation c)
flustered d) idiosyncrasy e) transfixed
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The last book of the Bible is called ______(s),
and it's where the writer reveals visions of the end of the world. a) scapegoat
b) revelation c) fluster d) idiosyncrasy e) transfix
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Congress passed the bill unanimously, without
_______. a) persistent b) revelation c) flustered
d) assent e) dissent
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Though third period was very _________, Mr. Coward
refused to _________ to their requests. a) flustered, persistent
b) transfixed, revelation c) flustered, dissent d) persistent,
assent e) transfixed, fluster
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In professional sports, the coach is often the
____ for a team's bad performance, even if it isn't always his fault.
a) metamorphosis b) revelation c) flustered d) idiosyncrasy
e) scapegoat
"The Monsters are Due on Maple Street."