Friday, November 18, 2016

Sound of thunder study guide

1.Vocabulary
Annihilate-defeat utterly
Expendable-of little significance when compared to an overall purpose, and therefore able to be abandoned
Infinitesimally-extremely small
Primeval-of or resembling the earliest ages in the history of the world
Resilient-able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions
Revoke-put an end to the validity or operation of 
Sheathed-put a weapon in a sheathe
Subliminal- below the threshold of sensation or consciousness
Taint-a trace of a bad or undesirable quality or substance
Undulate-move with a smooth wavelike motion
2. LITERARY
Foreshadowing- be a warning or indication of a future event.
EX.
Simile-a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind. Using like or as.
Metaphor- a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
Protagonist - main character in the story
Ex: Eckel 
3. QUESTIONS
1. Eckel visits a time machine safari
2. He would get fined
3. Keith being elected as president
4. Go back in time to 1492
5. 6 safari leaders died  and the Safari is not responsible for the death.
6. Travis
7.Lesperance
8. Blind it first the shoot it for the head
9. Christ isn't alive nor was Moise
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11. So they can't step anything from the past that will change history
12. The cloths changed
13. So they can't spread bacteria
14. They can only shoot dinosaurs with a red mark
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17. The author describes how Eckel is feeling.
18. The dinosaurs was not the size he expected
19. Red paint
20. He was rushing towards the time machine.
21. They throw up
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23. They are going to leave him
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25. There was something under his boot.
26. Eckel finds a butterfly
27. The president is different from the beginning
28. To shoot Eckel

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