| A | B |
|---|
| acute | highly sensitive |
| dissimulation | hiding one's feelings or purposes |
| profound | intellectually deep |
| sagacity | highly intelligent, wise and showing sound judgment |
| crevice | a narrow opening |
| gesticulations | energetic hand or arm movements |
| derision | contempt, ridicule, harsh language against someone |
| hearken | listen |
| deathwatches | wood-boring beetles whose heads make a tapping sound that is superstitiously regarded as an omen of death |
| scantlings | small beams or timbers |
| dissemble | to conceal (hide) the truth about one's true feelings or motives |
| Short story definition | read one sitting/fiction/under 10,000 words/oldest form |
| Character Description 4 ways | what character says/what's said by others/actions/how character is described |
| plot | what happens in a story |
| tragedy | Conflict beats character |
| conflict - define | problem in story |
| 4 types of conflict | man vs. man/society/himself/self |
| climax | high point of story |
| setting | where story takes place/year/month, etc. |
| mood | how story makes you feel |
| tone | what the author intends for his story/feeling |
| point of view | how the story is told |
| suspense | anxiety/tension created |
| foreshadowing | hint of what is to come/creats suspense |
| theme | abstract - main idea of story hate/revenge |
| symbol - symbolism | something represents something/stands for |
| protagonist | good guy - can be elements also |
| antagonist | bad guy |
