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1. Vocabulary Crossword #1 (Puzzle and Clues)
2. Vocabulary Crossword #2 (Puzzle and Clues)
Time to read The Princess Bride |
Buttercup |
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The Farm Boy ("As you wish.") |
Buttercup and the Farm Boy kiss before parting |
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The Castle |
Prince Humperdinck |
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The "poor circus performers": Vizzini, Inigo, and Fezzik |
Fezzik and Inigo enjoy some rhyming |
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A Shrieking Ell |
The Cliffs of Insanity |
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Count Rugen |
The Man in Black |
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The Fire Swamp |
A Rous (rodent of unusual size) |
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Just who Inigo wishes to find |
The Albino |
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Miracle Max and Valerie ("Have fun storming the castle.") |
Inigo battles Count Rugen ("My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die!") |
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Fezzik brings the Prince's stallions ("Hello, Lady.") |
The world's most passionate kiss |
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Study Help: Use details from the novel to defend your position.
1. How does Goldman's opinion about pleasure reading and analyzing literature come out in the tale?
2. How does Goldman turn the traditional fairy tale upside-down? How does this tale follow the traditional fairy tale format?
3. How does this story become mythical in nature? (Think about what the characters represent.)
4. What specific aspects of society does Goldman satirize?
5. What effect on the novel as a whole does the forward/introduction have?
6. How do the characters in the novel defy convention? How are they conventional?
Basic Characters:
William Goldman Westley Fezzik The Countess Miracle Max the Dread Pirate Roberts Yeste |
S. Morgenstern Prince Humperdinck Inigo Montoya King Lotharon Valerie Yellin |
Buttercup Vizzini Count Rugen Queen Bella The Albino Domingo Montoya |
Vocabulary Words:
1. abridge (v) to cut out a part of a book or other literary work
2. adversary (n) one's enemy
3. baklava (n) a Greek pastry
4. blunt (adj) straightforward, usually without consideration for feelings
5. candor (n) complete honesty
6. congregate (v) to gather
7. excision (n) a cutting out of something
8. expository (n) explanatory
9. ferret (v) to uncover, as in information
10. Freudian (adj) of ro relating to an unconscious thought
11. inconceivable (adj) unable to be thought of
12. lure (v) to attract or tempt
13. plaited (adj) braided
14. quarry (n) one's prey
15. ravine (n) a deep canyon, usually narrow
16. satire (n) a literary work which ridicules a part of human nature or society
17. simian (n) a monkey or ape
18. sublimity (n) the state of being extremely happy
19. sulphur (n) a smelly gas
20. traverse (v) to travel across
21. anachronistic (adj) incompatible to a specific period of time
22. audible (adj) able to be heard
23. authenticate (v) to prove true
24. avenge (v) to pay back a wrong
25. claret (n) a sweet wine
26. cowardice (n) behavior characterized by fear
27. curtail (v) to put a stop to or end
28. immobile (adj) unable to move
29. florin (n) a coin from Florence
30. forlorn (adj) sad and lonely
31. freelance (v) to work on one’s own, usually for oneself
32. guilder (n) a unit of currency from the Netherlands
33. nuptials (n) wedding festivities/ceremonies
34. parry (v) to ward off or dodge a blow from a sword
35. pretense (n) a false show of something
36. propriety (n) appropriate behavior for society
37. quandary (n) a dilemma or problem to be solved
38. reconciliation (n) the process of coming back together
39. reverberate (v) to echo loudly
40. titan (n) of great size, strength, or influence
41. vulpine (adj) having fox-like characteristics
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