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.
  1. "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
  2. "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
  3. "I remembered my mother..."  a) foreshadowing  b) flashback  c) protagonist  d) irony  e) metaphor  f) simile  g) theme  h) NOTA
  4. "I could fall in love with Dallas Winston."  a) foreshadowing  b) flashback  c) protagonist  d) irony  e) metaphor  f) simile  g) theme  h) NOTA
  5. "...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
  6. "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
  7. "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
  8. "It was almost four months ago..."  a) foreshadowing  b) flashback  c) protagonist  d) irony  e) metaphor  f) simile  g) theme  h) NOTA
  9. "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
  10. "...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.
  1. 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
  2. The replays of the auto wreck _____ TV watchers all over the country.  a) assented  b) transfixed  c) insomnia  d) flustered  e) scapegoated
  3. "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
  4. "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
  5. "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
  6. "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
  7. 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
  8. My little boy is very ____ when he wants something, he keeps trying and trying. a) persistent  b) revelation  c) flustered  d) idiosyncrasy  e) transfixed
  9. 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
  10. Congress passed the bill unanimously, without _______.   a) persistent  b) revelation  c) flustered  d) assent  e) dissent
  11. 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
  12. 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

 
 
 
 
 

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