"The Devil and Tom Walker" Vocabulary & Terms Review

Define the word avarice.

• extreme unwillingness to spend money or use resources

• person who lends money at an unreasonably high interest rate

• extreme greed

• showing off wealth

Define the word usurer.

• showing off wealth

• to invest in things like stocks; taking a risk with money

• to obtain something by force, threats, or unfair means

• a person who lends money at an unreasonably high interest rate

Define the word extort.

• to obtain something by force, threats, or unfair means

• showing off wealth

• extreme greed

• extreme unwillingness to spend money or use resources

Define the word speculate.

• showing off wealth

• to invest in things like stocks; taking a risk to make money

• a person who lends money at a unreasonably high interest rate

• to obtain something by force, threats, or unfair means

Define the word ostentation.

• to obtain something by force, threats, or unfair means

• showing off wealth

• extreme unwillingness to spend money or use resources

• a person who lends money at unreasonably high interest rates

Define the word parsimony.

• showing off wealth

• to invest in things like stocks; taking a risk with money

• extreme unwillingness to spend money or use resources

• extreme greed

In the __________ point of view, the narrator stands outside the action of the story and relates many characters' thoughts and feelings. In other words, this narrator is all-knowing.

• first person

• second person

• third person omniscient

• third person limited

A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning is called a/an _____.

• deduction

• inference

• theory

• theme

What is tone?

• a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning

• an all-knowing point of view

• the central message of a literary work

• the author's attitude toward the subject

The theme of a story can best be described as _____.

• writing that is not meant to be taken literally

• the main topic present in the work

• the main topic present in the work + the author's message

• a thing that represents or stands for something else