English Exam

hyperbole

an extreme exaggeration

ex. “I could eat a horse.”

simile

a comparison using like or as

ex. “The clouds were like cotton candy”

metaphor

a comparison not using like or as

ex. “The snow was a blanket across the grass.”

personification

giving a inatimate object lifelike properties

ex. “The furnace roared.”

onomatopeia

when the word looks how it sounds

ex. “boom”

allusion

a reference to a historical event

ex. “Swimming is his Achilles Heal”

autocratic

absolute in power or authority

adieu

farewell

asylum

an institution for the care of childred, the elderly; a place of safety

surly

angry and bad tempered, rude

dwindle

to lessen, diminish

emancipate

to gain freedom from a higher authority

enlightened

to be informed of information

candid

unposed for, random

scuttle

to sink a ship by cutting holes in it; to get rid of something in a decisive way; to run hastily, scurry

a pail

inscribe

to write or engrave, to put ones name on a list

despicable

cruel and evil

bogus

false, counterfit

impel

to drive or force someone to something

laborious

requiring long and hard work

statute

a law

envoy

a representative or messenger in the government

console

to comfort

a control panel for an electric gaming system

temperate

mild, moderate

aspire

to have ambicious hopes or plans or goals, to want to be or do something

proponent

one who presents a proposal, one who supports a cause or belief

comport

to conduct or behave oneself with manners

concise

short and to the point

obtrusive

forward, undisirablely prominant, thrust out

invincible

not able to be beat, undefeated

pugnacious

quareelsome, fond of fighting

rejuvenate

make young again, refresh

blanch

to remove all color from, turn pale

assimilate

to absorb fully or make onne’s own, fully adapt to

vagrant

a person without a settled home who wanders

blaspehmy

an act, utterance, or attempt to go against something sacred

Setting of TKAM

Maycomb, AL

1930s/Great Depression

Main Points of Plot of __March__

John has a meeting with MLK JR

The Nashville student movement starts

Sit Ins start

Time Period of March, Book One

1960s, Civil rights

Bloody Sunday/Edmund Pettus Bridge

Very non violent protest on the bridge turned into a fatal outburst by police. Many killed and injured in what was supposed to be a peaceful protest. Called bloody sunday because many people died from the brutalily.

Past and personalilty traits of King Shahryar

First wife cheated on him. He started marrying a new woman every day and kills them.

Distrustful

Scheherazade

Told stories to the king but left on cliff hangers so that the king would let her live. Lasted 1001 nights then actualyl got married.

Hera (Greek)

Juno (Roman)

Demeter (Greek)

Ceres (Roman)

Hades (G)

Pluto (R)

Artemis (G)

Diana (R)

Aeolus

God of the winds, caused bad wind and shipwreks Aeneas and his men

Neptune

Rescues the men that are still alive in the Aenied, god of the sea

Juno

Loved Carthage and wanted to stop Aeneas’s men from getting there because their is a prophecy that he is going to destory it.

Night - Setting

Holocaust

Juno (R)

Hera

Ceres

Demeter

Pluto

Hades

Diana

Artemis