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Series of events related to the solution of a problem or conflict

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Plot

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Introduces situations and characters

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Exposition

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Source of tension in a story, struggle with opposing forces

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Conflict

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Turning point

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Climax

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outcome how problems are worked out

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Resolution

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twisted

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Convoluted

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twisted facial expression

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Grimace

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Skillfulness

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deaftness

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In such a slight way, as to almost be unrecognizable

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imperceptibly

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taking great pleasure in

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reveling

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Seemingly endless

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interminable

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what is the setting of the dead man’s pocket?

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New York City

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Who is the author of the dead man’s pocket?

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jack finney

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Who is the author of the monkey paw?

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WW Jacobs

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what are the two things of the monkeys paw?

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Choices and consequences

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What is the setting of the monkey paw?

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New England

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Holy man who cast spells

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fakir

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good luck piece anything believed to have magical powers

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tailsmen

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doily to cover a chair

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Anti-massacre

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Brave valent

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doughty

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21
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Spoken ill of

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maligned

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Tendency to believe to readily

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credulity

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Common place ordinary

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prosaic

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Greedy for riches

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avarcious

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Secretly stealthily
furtively
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something that is like the rapid firing of firearms
fusillade
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feelings that something bad will happen
foreboding
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noisy commotion
tumult
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warning or indication of a future event
Foreshadowing
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Make an educated guess
Prediction
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Who is the author of Lenaghan versus the ants?
Carl Stevenson
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What is the genre of Lenaghan versus the ants?
Fiction
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What is the setting of Lenaghan versus the ants?
Brazilian plantation
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what is the central conflict of Lenaghan versus the ants?
Human intelligence and nature
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what is the external conflict of Lenaghan versus the ants?
The flow of petrol from the tanks is blocked
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struggle between opposing forces
Conflict
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leading character or one of the main characters and I drama novel, movie, or other fictional tex
protagonist
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Person who actively opposes or hostile to someone or some thing
Antagonist
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lizard like animal
saurians
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treeless plains in South America
Pampas
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laborers i’m spanish america
peons
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Show contempt for
flout
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low dam
weir
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food
provender
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material such as sand or gravel deposited by moving water
alluvium
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applications of warm,moist substances in the treatment of an injury
formentations
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how do people feel about Lanigan’s leader ship?
confident
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Who warned the learning about the ants?
District commissioner
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what is the most important thing in the dead man’s pocket and in toms life
His work and professional goals
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what does Tom struggle the most with?
his fear
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what causes time to panic
looks down at the street
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what is the dead man’s pocket mostly about?
Ambition to become successful
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where does Tom live?
new york
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how does Tom get back in his apartment?
Breaks the window
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What is the monkey Paul about?
magical monkey paw that gives you three wishes by three consequences
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why does Mrs. White think the stranger is in the house?
To give the 200 pounds
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What does he realize when he gets the money?
I don’t see the money, and I bet I never shall
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why is he afraid to wish again?
his son will be a lifeless corpse
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Result of Herbert and machinery
Fate of the wish
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Holy Man, cast spells
fakir
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where did the sergeant get the monkeys paw from?
India