Context Clues

Today was the initial meeting of the chess club, and Carrie was overjoyed to be  elected president at the very first meeting.
Which words are the context clues for the word "initial?"

• to be elected 
• very 
• overjoyed 
•  first

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CCSS.L.1.4A

CCSS.L.2.4A

CCSS.L.3.4A

CCSS.L.4.5C

CCSS.L.K.5B

What's the meaning of this simile?
"My mom can be as fiery as a volcano when I don't do my chores on time."

• Her hair is red.
• She talks really loudly.
• She gets really angry. 
• She spits when she talks. 

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

What's the meaning of this hyperbole?
"Shawn would move mountains for Angela."

• Shawn and Angela like to climb mountains together.
• Shawn paints pictures of mountain scenes.
• Shawn would do anything for Angela.
• Angela is really pretty. 

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

The twins look alike, but they are as different as night and day.

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Idiom

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Identify the Simile below...

• The tree danced in the wind.
• She is as tall as a tree!
• That cat is the devil.
• My backpack weighs a thousand tons!

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The word scrawny, as in "Jason appeared scrawny," has a _________ connotation.

• positive
• negative

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CCSS.L.6.5C

CCSS.L.7.5C

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Read the sentences and answer the question. I gave the most difficult task to Yandy because she is the most stubborn person I know.    I gave the most difficult task to Yandy because she is the most persistent person I know. How does the connotation of the word persistent in the second sentence convey the author’s purpose?

• It implies a positive characteristic.
• It implies an increasingly negative characteristic.
• It implies a careless characteristic.
• It implies a playfully irresponsible characteristic.

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CCSS.L.6.5C

CCSS.L.7.5C

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Read the following sentence from a passage. She was a connoisseur of peppers and recognized quality when she tasted especially good ones. Which word keeps the author’s meaning of connoisseur?

• grower
• lover
• expert
• critic

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CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

What does connotation mean?

• a word’s literal meaning
• a word’s dictionary definition
• additional feeling associated with word
•  a word that has lost its freshness

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CCSS.L.6.5C

CCSS.L.7.5C

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What does the word denotation mean? 

• the dictionary definition of a word
• the additional meaning of a word
• the sugarcoating of a word
• the additional feeling of a word

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4