The Monkey's Paw Vocabulary Preview

A theme is message about life or human nature that the writer shares with the reader. After watching this short trailer, what theme can you come up with?

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CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

Themes that are found throughout the literature of all time periods.

• Imagery

• Foreshadowing

• Inference

• Universal Theme

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CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

The following paragraph can be defined by what type of Figurative Language?

You can feel the cool breeze blowing as you sit with your feet in the warm sand. The smell of salt fills the air as you slowly drift off to sleep.

• Allusion

• Simile

• Imagery

• Irony

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CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

Clues an author gives that hint at what will happen later in the story.

• Foreshadowing

• Dialogue

• Inference

• Theme

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CCSS.RL.9-10.5

A written conversation between two or more characters.

• a chat

• imagery

• fate

• dialogue

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

A logical guess that is made based on facts and one's own knowledge and experience.

• inference

• compensation

• dialogue

• peril

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Something that is dangerous

• condole

• grimace

• credulity

• peril

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

To express sympathy or sorrow for someone

• fate

• grimace

• prosaic

• condole

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

A facial expression of pain or disgust.

• grimace

• compensation

• resignation

• credulity

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A power that is thought to determine the course of events.

• fate

• theme

• peril

• resignation

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CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9