Prior Learning Quiz - Evaluative Language

Evaluative Language is:

• An adjective (describing word)

• Words that express a judgement on what they are describing (positive or negative)

• How certain you are of something

• Unsure

Evaluative Language includes:

• Language to express feelings or opinions

• Language to make judgements about aspects of people

• Language to assess quality of objects

• All of the above

Evaluative Language has to be used explicitly (not implied)

• TRUE

• FALSE

Identify the evaluative word or phrase in this sentence: "The dancers articulated movements cohesively through the space"

• Dancers

• Articulated

• Movements

• Cohesively

Identify the evaluative word or phrase in this sentence: "The choreographer worked hard to create purposeful moments of isolation".

• Choreographer

• Hard

• Purposeful

• Moments of isolation

Identify the evaluative word or phrase in this sentence: "She executed the pirouette turn with such precision and grace".

• Precision and grace

• Pirouette

• Executed

• Such

Identify the evaluative word or phrase in this sentence: "The stage is over on the left".

• Stage

• Over

• On the left

• There are no evaluative terms in this sentence