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WorksheetsThe Monkey's Paw Vocab
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 7mins
Healthy looking and red or pink.
Talisman.
Rubicund.
Resolution.
Point of View
The narrator's position in relation to a story being told.
How you look a the story.
The part where readers see what's happening.
A person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary.
Protagonist.
Main character.
Antagonist.
I looked at him dubiously.
With hesitation or doubt.
With sadness.
Without question.
Having extreme greed for wealth.
Averted.
Avaricious.
Credulity.
Furtively.
Unconcealed.
Public.
Secretively.
A person in a novel, play, or movie.
Character.
Actor.
Actress.
Lacking poetic beauty.
Prosaic.
Bibulous.
Simian.
She averted her eyes during the violent scenes.
Closed.
Turn away.
Crossed.
A religious person that lives on donations.
Simian.
Doughty.
Fakir.
The zoology professor was studying simian life.
Relating to, resembling, or affecting apes or monkeys.
A person regarded with loathing and contempt.
Relating to amphibians.
The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
Sarcasm.
Irony.
Humor.
True or False: a tendency to believe too easily; gullibility → credulity
True
False
Select the best answer for the definition or word of the vocabulary word: a power that is supposed to determine the course of events
virtue
fate
virulent
fathom
Foreshadowing
staying inside the lines
the writer provides hints that suggest future events in the story
the writer provides examples in the story
a prediction
Credulity
having to do with money
being hard to convince
a tendency to believe too readily
being very difficult
an object, typically an inscribed ring or stone, that is thought to have magic powers and to bring good luck.
condole
talisman
inaudible
compensation
Select the best answer for the definition or word of the vocabulary word: ordinary, commonplace
professional
prosaic
proportional
prose
True or False: an object thought to have magical powers → talisman
True
False
