ABC MIDTERM STUDY GUIDE.

A

• Adjectives describe the noun
• Ex: the girl is very pretty
• Ex: Juan is a boy
• Ex: Girls hair is red

B

• Because walter mitty day dreams so much it gets him into many crazy
• Situations. His day dreams are affecting his relationship with his wife

C(OMMMON HELPING VERBS)

• Do,did,does,am,are,is,was,were,have,has,had,can,many,
• Will be,will have,can be, can have, could be,could have,
• Will have been,might have been

DELLA

• Della loves her husband so much that she sells her hair to get money for his gift
• Della character traits of being clingy and obbsessive
• Della rhymes with sella and she sella her haired

EVEN THOUGH

• Even though the washwomen got very sick she still washed the
• Singers clothes and brought them to the singer family.

F

• Foreshadowing is whem something is hinted to and then happens
• Foreshowding is shown in sonata fo rharbb and biycle when they jumped off
• Of the ledge

G

• Grime building is a very scary plsce after 5'clock
• The sonta for harp and bicycle takes place inside of the building
• It is haunted by two past lovers

H

• Helping verbs are a verb phrase that contains a main verb and
• One or more helping verbs
• EX：does walking improve your health

I

• Irony is a controdiction between appearnece & reality
• Its the difference between what is espected and what really happens
• Ex: jim and della.

J

• Jim sold his watch to buy the combs for della
• Jim i a ver responsible,caring man

K

L

• Linking verbs limk two independent clauses together
• Ex: the girl is very pretty and she is nice

M

• Mitty is the main character of walter mitty
• He is always day dreaming
• Mitty is always off day dreaming of being
• Something more then he is now

N

• Noun a person place or thing
• Ex: juan ran towards vallery

O

• O henry is an author who wrote the gift of the magi

P

• Plural nouns are nouns that are talking about more then
• One person place or thing
• EX: dogs,cats,mice.

R

• Reflexive noun
• Ends in self or selves and refer to an earlier noun or
• Pronoun

S

• Straught character is a character that isnt really introduced in the
• Story, doesnt have much personaily and isnt really revelaed
• To the audience

T

• Theme is the re occuring topic in a story
• Ex: the givers theme is love and trust and truth.

U

• Universal theme theme that thouches on the humna
• Experience
• Ex: good vs evil

V

• Verbs are words that convey an action(bring,run,walk)
• Or a state of being (stand,be,exist)

W

• Washwomen is a story about a old women
• Who washes clothes for the singer family
• She walks miles to get there clothes,then wash them
• And bring them back, she has a bad relationship with her son
• And she is very dedicated to the wash, it wouldnt let her die

Y