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How the text makes the reader feel (Ex. Peaceful, eerie, humorous, sad)

• description
• mood
• analysis
• tone

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What is the "tone" of a story?

• The feeling the passage evokes from the reader
• The author, narrator, or speaker's attitude toward a subject
• The time and place of the story
• The summary of events in the story

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Captain Beatty says, “A book is a loaded gun in the house next door.  Burn it. Breach man’s mind.  Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?” (58). This extended metaphor implies that:

• Books help humans to expand their minds and reach their full potential.
• Without books, mankind is lost.
• Books influence people to engage in crime.
• Books do more harm than good; they give people ideas, which make them dangerous.

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Although she never went to art school, her photography showed true ___ quality.

• aesthetic
• maverick
• enigma
• belligerent

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Figurative Language:
"Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir,
My daughter he hath wedded."

• Personification 
• Simile
• Hyperbole
• Oxymoron

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Metaphor

• A direct comparison between two unlike things without using "like" or "as"
• A false statement that appears to be true
• A comparison of two things using "like" or "as"
• An allusion of the truth

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Which connotation is MORE positive?
We saw ______ animals in the animal house.

• fascinating
• weird

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The flowers danced in the gentle breeze. 

• parody 
• free verse
• symbol 
• personification

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Which phrase has a more positive connotation?

• a peculiar object

• a unique object

• a strange object

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The feuding families are reconciled by their children's deaths and agree to ___________ their violent feud.

• Continue

• Advance

• Slow down

• End

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