Chortle CHAWR-tl - verb- (1) to chuckle gleefully (2) used with an object - to express with a gleeful chuckle: to chortle one's joy (3) noun - a gleeful chuckle. Origin: blend of chuckle and snort; coined by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-Glass (1871). What is the primary definition of the word chortle?

Read the excerpt from "mending wall." we keep the wall between us as we go. to each the boulders that have fallen to each. and some are loaves and some so nearly balls we have to use a spell to make them balance: "stay where you are until our backs are turned! " we wear our fingers rough with handling them. oh, just another kind of out-door game, one on a side. it comes to little more: there where it is we do not need the wall: he is all pine and i am apple orchard. what does the line “and some are loaves and some so nearly balls” refer to?

After swimming for hours he was tired what is the personal pronoun in the sentence below

Match the literary term with the definition. 1. dynamic character a character who encounters conflict and is changed by it and exhibits multiple traits 2. flat character a character who grows and changes as a result of the plot 3. round character a character who shows only one or two personality traits and does not undergo substantial growth or change through the course of the story 4. static character a character who remains constant in his or her beliefs, attitudes, behaviors, and personality