Final Exam Flashcards
With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting it’s _____+def____ kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head …
Venomous
Has gland for venom🐍
You drowned in music and pure _____+ def.______
Cacophony
Distorted sound🚨
In all the rush and ___+ definition_____, Montag had only an instant to read a line, but it blazed in his mind for the next minute as if stamped there with fiery steel.
Fervor
Intense feeling ❤️
He tried to ___+definition__ up a face to fit the words, but there was no face.
Conjure
Call an image to your mind 💭
Below, the Hound had sunk back down upon its eight incredible insect legs and was humming to itself again, it’s multi-____+definition___eyes at place
Faceted
Having many sides🎲
And in her ears the little Seashells, the thimble radios ___+definition___ right, and an electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk and music…
Tamped
Pack firmly 🧳
Light flickered on bits of ruby glass and on sensitive capillary hairs in the nylon-brushed nostrils of the creature that ___+definition___ gently, gently, gently…
Quivered
Tremble rapidly 💋😢
It growled again, a strange rasping combination of electrical sizzle, a frying sound, a scraping of metal, a turning of ___+definition___ that seemed…
Cogs
Wheel with projections ⚙️
And most of the time in the cafes they have the jukeboxes in and the same jokes most of the time, or the musical wall lit and all the colored patterns running up and down, but it’s only color and all ____+definiton___
Abstract
Idea or state but not existing 🎨
He tried to count how many times she swallowed and he thought of the visit from the two-zinc-oxide faced men with the cigarettes in their straight-lines mouths and the electric-eyes snake winding down into the layer upon layer of night and stone and _______+ definition ___ spring water…
Stagnant
No flow/movement 🛁
What is onomatopoeia?
Ex.
Word that’s spelled like how it sounds
Ex. Buzzing 🐝 bees flew
The splash 💦 of the water
The lion 🦁 roared
The leaves 🍁 rustled
What is a simile?
Two dissimilar objects compared using “like” or “as”
Ex. Fits like a glove 🧤
Sneaky as a fox 🦊
Lips like roses 🌹
Light as a feather 🪶
What is a hyperbole?
Boldly overstated or exaggerated statement
Ex. I love you to the moon and back🌙
My backpack weighs a ton 🏋️♀️
I heard an ear-splitting shriek 👂🏼
I’m so hungry that I can eat a horse 🐴
What is an idiom?
A saying often said in cultures/languages that’s different from its literal meaning
Ex. It’s raining cats & dogs (hard rain)🐱🐶
Piece of cake (something easy) 🍰
Last straw (last chance) 🥤
By the book (follows the rules) 📖
What is a metaphor?
Two dissimilar things being compared WITHOUT using “like” or “as”
Ex. Laughter is the best medicine 💊
She had stars in her eyes 💫
Your heart of stone surprises me ❤️
No man is an island 🏝
