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1
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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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3
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Source of tension in a story, struggle with opposing forces

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Conflict

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4
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Turning point

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Climax

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5
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outcome how problems are worked out

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Resolution

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6
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twisted

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Convoluted

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7
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twisted facial expression

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Grimace

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8
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Skillfulness

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deaftness

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9
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In such a slight way, as to almost be unrecognizable

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imperceptibly

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10
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taking great pleasure in

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reveling

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11
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Seemingly endless

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interminable

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12
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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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13
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Who is the author of the dead man’s pocket?

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jack finney

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14
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Who is the author of the monkey paw?

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WW Jacobs

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15
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what are the two things of the monkeys paw?

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Choices and consequences

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16
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What is the setting of the monkey paw?

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New England

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17
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Holy man who cast spells

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fakir

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18
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good luck piece anything believed to have magical powers

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tailsmen

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19
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doily to cover a chair

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Anti-massacre

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20
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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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22
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Tendency to believe to readily

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credulity

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23
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Common place ordinary

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prosaic

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24
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Greedy for riches

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avarcious

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25
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Secretly stealthily

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furtively

26
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something that is like the rapid firing of firearms

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fusillade

27
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feelings that something bad will happen

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foreboding

28
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noisy commotion

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tumult

29
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warning or indication of a future event

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Foreshadowing

30
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Make an educated guess

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Prediction

31
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Who is the author of Lenaghan versus the ants?

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Carl Stevenson

32
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What is the genre of Lenaghan versus the ants?

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Fiction

33
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What is the setting of Lenaghan versus the ants?

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Brazilian plantation

34
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what is the central conflict of Lenaghan versus the ants?

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Human intelligence and nature

35
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what is the external conflict of Lenaghan versus the ants?

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The flow of petrol from the tanks is blocked

36
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struggle between opposing forces

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Conflict

37
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leading character or one of the main characters and I drama novel, movie, or other fictional tex

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protagonist

38
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Person who actively opposes or hostile to someone or some thing

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Antagonist

39
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lizard like animal

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saurians

40
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treeless plains in South America

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Pampas

41
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laborers i’m spanish america

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peons

42
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Show contempt for

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flout

43
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low dam

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weir

44
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food

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provender

45
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material such as sand or gravel deposited by moving water

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alluvium

46
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applications of warm,moist substances in the treatment of an injury

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formentations

47
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how do people feel about Lanigan’s leader ship?

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confident

48
Q

Who warned the learning about the ants?

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District commissioner

49
Q

what is the most important thing in the dead man’s pocket and in toms life

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His work and professional goals

50
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what does Tom struggle the most with?

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his fear

51
Q

what causes time to panic

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looks down at the street

52
Q

what is the dead man’s pocket mostly about?

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Ambition to become successful

53
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where does Tom live?

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new york

54
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how does Tom get back in his apartment?

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Breaks the window

55
Q

What is the monkey Paul about?

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magical monkey paw that gives you three wishes by three consequences

56
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why does Mrs. White think the stranger is in the house?

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To give the 200 pounds

57
Q

What does he realize when he gets the money?

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I don’t see the money, and I bet I never shall

58
Q

why is he afraid to wish again?

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his son will be a lifeless corpse

59
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Result of Herbert and machinery

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Fate of the wish

60
Q

Holy Man, cast spells

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fakir

61
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where did the sergeant get the monkeys paw from?

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India

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