Connotative, Denotative, Figurative, and Context Clues

Denotation is a word's ____________.

• Literal, dictionary definition
• Emotional meaning
• synonym
• antonym

Connotation is a word's ___________.

• synonym
• emotional meaning
• antonym
• Literal, dictionary definition.

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

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

• positive
• negative

Referring to someone's house as a "shack" would have a __________ connotation.

• positive
• negative

I recognized the familiar smell of my roommate's cooking. If you change the word smell to stench, the word now has a ____________ connotation.

• positive
• negative

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5B

Choose the word with the positive connotation.
gathering--mob

• gathering
• mob

Denotative

• having the power to denote.
• The literal meaning of a word

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

 When you look a word up in the dictionary or thesaurus, which meaning do you get?

• denotative
• connotative
• technical
• figurative

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

"Excuse me," she said. "The train conductor told me what happened. You were on the wrong train car." Then she pointed to the large board that had previously mystified Patrick. "You will want to catch the next train to Milan," she said. "From there it is easy to get to Rome."
In the excerpt above, the word mystified most likely means:

• mysterious
• confused
• frustrated
• shocked

Choose the best worst to fill in the blank.
My husband and my mother don't really like each other, but they ________ one another for my sake.

• tolerate
• liberate
• haughty
• overwhelm