https://padlet.com/reyes_salvad11/zxnlyl7ghcqz Made with a taste for adventure en-us 2016-12-12 19:27:39 UTC 2025-10-13 04:11:52 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Ninja.png reyes_salvad11 https://padlet.com/reyes_salvad11/zxnlyl7ghcqz/wish/143225319 When speaking to Marley's Ghost Scrooge rebuffs him when at first he does not believe hes seeing Marley because he blames "the vision" on badly cooked food by saying; "There is more of Garvey than the grave in you"

Detention: the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.]]> 2016-12-12 19:34:52 UTC https://padlet.com/reyes_salvad11/zxnlyl7ghcqz/wish/143225319 reyes_salvad11 https://padlet.com/reyes_salvad11/zxnlyl7ghcqz/wish/143228099 Jacob Marley and the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in attending to his late business partner's affairs. In the passage in question, Dickens, repeatedly emphasizing the fact of Marley's death, and, as it turns out, presaging the events to follow -- in this case, the imminent appearance of Marley's ghost

Defention : an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.]]> 2016-12-12 19:45:10 UTC https://padlet.com/reyes_salvad11/zxnlyl7ghcqz/wish/143228099 reyes_salvad11 https://padlet.com/reyes_salvad11/zxnlyl7ghcqz/wish/143715541 First, he says Scrooge is a "tight-fisted hand at the grindstone."  The grindstone is figurative.
Defention:a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable]]> 2016-12-14 19:46:41 UTC https://padlet.com/reyes_salvad11/zxnlyl7ghcqz/wish/143715541 reyes_salvad11 https://padlet.com/reyes_salvad11/zxnlyl7ghcqz/wish/145162618 Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail

Defintion:a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid

]]> 2017-01-03 19:46:18 UTC https://padlet.com/reyes_salvad11/zxnlyl7ghcqz/wish/145162618 reyes_salvad11 https://padlet.com/reyes_salvad11/zxnlyl7ghcqz/wish/145163130 Tiny Tim is described as "as good as gold"

Definition: he attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

]]> 2017-01-03 19:48:29 UTC https://padlet.com/reyes_salvad11/zxnlyl7ghcqz/wish/145163130 reyes_salvad11 https://padlet.com/reyes_salvad11/zxnlyl7ghcqz/wish/145362417 Dickens creates a cold weather image when he describes Scrooge's physical appearance and general character. To do this, he uses phrases like, "the cold within him froze his old features," "a frosty rime was on his head," and "he iced his office." By evoking these images, Dickens emphasizes to the reader Scrooge's cold-hearted personality and bleak outlook on life. 

Definition: visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.]]> 2017-01-04 19:25:39 UTC https://padlet.com/reyes_salvad11/zxnlyl7ghcqz/wish/145362417 reyes_salvad11 https://padlet.com/reyes_salvad11/zxnlyl7ghcqz/wish/145364729 When i was walking home i heard a balloon "pop"

Definition: the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named]]> 2017-01-04 19:33:34 UTC https://padlet.com/reyes_salvad11/zxnlyl7ghcqz/wish/145364729 reyes_salvad11 https://padlet.com/reyes_salvad11/zxnlyl7ghcqz/wish/145366425 It was so cold I saw polar bears wearing jackets.
Definition: exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

]]> 2017-01-04 19:39:11 UTC https://padlet.com/reyes_salvad11/zxnlyl7ghcqz/wish/145366425 reyes_salvad11 https://padlet.com/reyes_salvad11/zxnlyl7ghcqz/wish/145367012 the words chuckle, fickle, and kick are consonant with one and other due to the existence of common interior consonant sounds ck

Definition; agreement or compatibility between opinions or actions.]]> 2017-01-04 19:41:11 UTC https://padlet.com/reyes_salvad11/zxnlyl7ghcqz/wish/145367012