Vocabulary/ and Comprehension Test Gift of the Magi

Della opening Jim's present and discovering what he bought he is the

• resolution

• climax

• inciting incident

• exposition

Deciding to put their gifts away until later is the

• rising action

• exposition

• conclusion, resolution, denouncement

• climax

Putting on her coat, selling her hair, and buying Jim's gift are part of the

• rising action

• exposition

• conclusion, resolution, denouncement

• climax

Counting her money and realizing she did not have enough money is

• the rising action

• the inciting incident

• the conclusion, resolution, denouncement

• the climax

Describing Jim and Del's apartment and their situation is the

• rising action

• exposition

• conclusion, resolution, denouncement

• climax

The narrator in "Gift of the Magi" iss

• Second Person

• First Person

• Third Person –Omniscient

• Third person - Limited

Discovering that they each sold their prized possession to buy one another a gift is an example of

• Allusion

• Genre

• Irony

• Scene

Extreme unwillingness to spend money; cheapness

• meretricious

• parsimony

• predominating

• ardent

To provoke or bring about

• laboriously

• Imputation

• Instigate

• depreciate

To be the strongest or main element

• predominating

• ardent

• vestibule

• parsimony