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McDonald's is an inexpensive meal. If you change the word inexpensive to cheap, the word now has a ____ connotation.

• positive
• negative

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"Everybody loves the things you do
From the way you talk to the way you move
Everybody here is watching you
'Cause you feel like home
You're like a dream come true."
Is an example of...

• simile
• personification
• rhyme
• cliche

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What is the meaning of the word in blue?
Ms. Witherspoon was shocked that the snickering bill collector was brazen enough to rest his feet on the antique grand piano, with his shoes on of all things, while she ran to get her checkbook. 

• Confident 
• Not Confident 

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"After he ate the chocolate chip cookies, guilt poked and chewed at Anthony."
What is being personified?

• The chocolate chips
• The cookie
• Anthony
• Guilt

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The car is a dinosaur so we better buy a new one.

• The car is very old.
• The car was truly made in prehistoric times.
• The car is very new.

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"The last day of school is like a day at the beach - easy and relaxing." The kind of figurative language used here is _______ 

• personification
• hyperbole
• metaphor
• simile

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Up out of that snarling, growling, slashing mass reared an old redbone hound.  

• metaphor
• onomatopoeia
• none
• hyperbole

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Denotation is the actual definition of a word.

Connotation is the emotion that a word generates in addition to the actual meaning.You may have noticed that some words generate emotions for you. In that case, you are reacting to a word’s connotative meaning.

Determine if the song phrase evokes a positive, negative, or neutral connotation.

"Two deep, it's just me and Jay

Just postin in them court-side seats

Woo! I'm like hol' up

Woo! I might roll up

If they're tryna party with the queen

They gon' have to sign a non-disclosure, hey."

-Top Off, Jay-z, Future, Beyonce'

• positive connotation

• negative connotation

• neutral

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I'm Afraid we have ____of apple juice.Will an orange juice do?

• made up

• keep up

• run out

• do without

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The binoculars were useful in trying to _____ the horizon to see animals up close.

Which word BEST COMPLETES this sentence?

• discredit

• strand

• plight

• scan

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