Tuck Everlasting 8-16 vocab & figurative language

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Excessive pride in appearance or achievements

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Vanity

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Tucks home description

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homely

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Definition of a simile

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Comparing 2 unlike things using "LIKE" or "AS"

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Our soccer team was ____________ at the tournament

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indomitable

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Man in the Yellow Suit - relationship with kidnappers?

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cahoots

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NOT a synonym for MELANCHOLY

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cheerful

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Figurative language for human traits to non-human objects

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Personification

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NOT Personification: "seeing you...is the finest thing that's happened in-oh- at least eighty years." (pg. 49)

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Examples of Personification: 1. "...the graceful arms of the pines stretched out protectively in every direction." (pg. 47) 2. "streaks of light swam and danced and wavered..." 3. "Winnie felt her elation, and her thoughtless pleasure, wobble and collapse." (57)

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Describing a playful puppy: ____________

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vigorous

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Circular movements of water, air, or smoke

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Eddies