Connotation Practice

Which connotation is more positive? We saw ____ animals in the animal house.

• fascinating

• weird

Tags

9.1.1

Which connotation is more negative? I ate a ______ sandwich.

• moist

• soggy

Tags

9.1.1

Which word has the most positive connotation?

“a woman who has adjusted to many things in life and overcome many more, her face is full of strength. She has, we can see, wit and faith of a kind that keep her eyes lit and full of interest and expectancy. She is, in a word, a ________ woman. Her bearing is perhaps most like the noble bearing of the women of the Hereros of Southwest Africa - rather as if she imagines that as she walks she still bears a basket or a vessel upon her head.”

• fine

• pretty

• cute

• beautiful

Tags

9.1.1

What has the most negative connotation?

“I guess that’s how come that man finally worked hisself to death like he done. Like he was fighting his own ______ with this here world that took his baby from him.”

• war

• battle

• conflict

• problem

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5C

CCSS.L.9-10.5B

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is the most negative connotation?

“Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most? When they done good and made things easy for everybody? Well then, you ain’t through learning – because that ain’t the time at all. It’s when he’s at his lowest and can’t believe in hisself ‘cause the world done ________ him so! When you starts measuring somebody, measure him right, child, measure him right. Make sure you done taken into account what hills and valleys he come through before he got to wherever he is.

• whipped

• pushed

• prodded

• poked

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5B

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is the most negative connotation?

“Walter: Sometimes it’s like I can see the future stretched out in front of me – just plain as day. The future, Mama. Hanging over there at the edge of my days. Just waiting for me — a big, _______ blank space – full of nothing. Just waiting for me. But it don’t have to be.”

• approaching

• emerging

• looming

• moving

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5B

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is the most positive connotation?

“It’s dangerous, son …When a man goes outside his home to look for _______.”

• calm

• peace

• truce

• quiet

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5B

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Which word has the most negative connotation?

“Mama: If you a son of mine, tell her! (WALTER picks up his keys and his coat and walks out. She continues, bitterly) You…you are a ______ to your father’s memory. Somebody get me my hat!”

• blur

• disgrace

• spot

• fault

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5C

CCSS.L.9-10.5B

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Which synonym has the most positive connotation of "argue"?

• fight

• yell

• debate

• agree

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5B

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Which synonym has the most negative connotation of "search"?

• look

• explore

• snoop

• browse

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5B

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4