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Old man’s favorite baseball player
The Great (Joe) Dimaggio
Old man’s favorite baseball team
The New York Yankees
# of days the old man went without catching a fish
eighty-four
Name of young boy
Manolin
“How old was I when you first took me in a boat?”
Five
The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes, is this type of figurative language
Personification
Setting of story
Cuba
The sail was patched with flour sacks and, __ (rolled up); it looked like the flag of permanent defeat
furled
“I wanted to take him (Dick Sisler) fishing, but I was too __(nervous, fearful) to ask him”
timid
Small spanish grocery store
bodego
big hook the fisherman use to haul a big fish into the boat
Gaff
(the fish) waited for the ice truck to carry them to the market in __, the capitial of the Caribbean island country
Havana
Type of fish the old man was fishing for
Marlin
The old man was now definitely and finally __, which is the worst form of unlucky
salao
The old man had many __ or old things that are left behind of his wife
Relics
The other type of fish that was hunted for its liver, fins, and hide
Shark
“You’re my __ clock,” the boy said
alarm
There was no cast net and the boy remembered when they had sold it. But they went through this __(fantasy) every day
fiction
coffee is what type of figurative language
metaphor
A long spear used by fishermen to capture a big fish
Harpoon
“Can I offer you a __ on the Terrace and then we’ll take the stuff home”
beer
furled is what type of figurative language
Simile
famous cuban dish that the old man and the boy ate for supper
black beans and rice
Type of fish that the boy brings the old man as bait
Sardines
The way the fishermen kill a big fish; by __ it
clubbing
the only thing that the man would drink or eat all day; a cup of __
coffee
the country that the old man dreamed of
africa
but these poisonings from the agua mala or the ___ came quickly and stuck like a whiplash
portuguese man of war
Microscopic group of organisms that float on the sea (whales eat them)
plankton
he had a friendly contempt for the huge, stupid loggerheards; is what kind of figurative language
oxymoron
But today is __ days and I should fish the day well
eighty five
“he’s got something,” the old man said aloud. “he’s not just looking.” the bird he is referring to is:
man of war
that __ (group of fish) has gotten away from me, he thought
school
a unit of measure used by sailors to measure depth in the ocean equivalent to 6 feet
fathom
he also drank a cup of __ liver oil each day
shark
“it was __ when i hooked him” he said “ and i have never seen him”
noon
This will kill him, but four hours later the fish was still swimming steadily out to sea, __ (dragging the skiff)
towing
How the old man told the time; by the position of the __
sun
“__” (a kind of tuna) he said aloud. “he’ll make a beautiful bait
albacore
the only seabirds that he did not feel sorry for; the __
robber birds
the small fishing boat that the old man used; a __
skiff
The old man’s prinicipal friends on the ocean
flying fish
most people are __ about turtles because a turtle’s heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered
heartless
sometimes those who love her (the sea) say bad things of her but they are always said as though she were a __
woman
The first fish he saw; “__” the old man said aloud. “Big __”
Dolphin
One hundred fathoms down a __ was eating the sardines that covered the point and the shank of the hook
marlin
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