A long way gone Chapter 3,4 and 7

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  1. massacre
    the savage and excessive killing of many people
  2. bayonet
    a knife fixed to the end of a rifle and used as a weapon
  3. subsequent
    following in time or order
  4. mutilation
    the act of severely damaging or ruining something
  5. residue
    matter that remains after something has been removed
  6. predicament
    an unpleasant or difficult situation
  7. implement
    a piece of equipment or a tool used for a specific purpose
  8. tactics
    branch of military science dealing with detailed maneuvers
  9. oblivious
    lacking conscious awareness of
  10. vigorously
    in an energetic manner
  11. skeptical
    marked by or given to doubt
  12. empathy
    understanding and entering into another's feelings
  13. imagery
    the ability to form mental pictures of things or events
  14. theme
    the subject matter of a conversation or discussion
  15. metaphor
    a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
  16. simile
    a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things
  17. flashback
    a transition in a story to an earlier event or scene
  18. allusion
    passing reference or indirect mention
  19. anaphora
    repetition of a word or phrase to begin successive clauses
  20. irony
    incongruity between what might be expected and what occurs
  21. symbolism
    the practice of investing things with arbitrary meaning
Created on Wed Oct 03 09:06:11 EDT 2012 (updated Tue Oct 16 08:23:14 EDT 2012)

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