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20 Cards in this Set
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Repress |
Repressed: to hold something back, or try to stop it from happening. |
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Mock |
Mock: to treat someone with scorn or contempt; ridicule; taunt; deride. |
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Grimance |
Grimance: to twist your face in an unattractive way because you are unhappy, disgusted. |
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Venture |
Venture: a dangerous daring, or poorly task or activity. |
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Bore |
Bore: to carry something or have it visible in some way. |
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Figurative language |
Figurative language: language that uses words and expressions to express ideas that are different from their literal mean. |
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Personification |
Personification: when an animal, object, or phenomenon is described as behaving in a human way. |
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Dialect |
Dialect: a form of language that is spoken in a partículas region by the people who live there. |
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Literal language |
Literal language: The dictionary definition of a word. |
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Imagery |
Imagery: descriptive words that use sensory details to help readers imagine a scene |
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Metaphor |
To compare things with out using the word as and like. |
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Simile |
To compare things using the word like and as. |
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Hyperbole |
To exaggerate over something. |
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Onomatopeia |
To use words to suscribe sounds. |
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Trabalenguas |
To use many similar words on a same sentence |
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1. Where do the village people go for shelter from the hurricane? |
Canaries village |
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What is Gustus not telling his father? Why? |
That he feel that his strength is just proven in the number of innings he could pitch for his cricket team. Because pappy didn’t like cricket. |
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Why are his bananas so important to Gustus? |
The bananas are important to he because when he born they they dress his umbilical cord with castor oil and sprinkle with nutmeg and buried, with the banana tree planted for him over him meanwhile passing years he get in more love telling it in a way with the tree. |
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In what condition is the banana tree when Gustus reaches it? |
Gustos saw that it crashes and he decide that this time the bananas should get the market so hi tide the tree with 8 props. |
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5. How do you know that pappy understands Gustus and what he needs at the end of the story? |
I know he understands pappy because he remember how the boy had being fussing with the banana tree and what he needs at the end are some shoes to live a “normal” live. |
