Vocab Quiz 1

5. Connotation is a word's ___________.

• synonym

• anyonym

• emotional meaning

• literal, dictionary definition

7. 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

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

• positive

• negative

What does denotation mean?

• The underlying meaning of a word.

• It is the positive meaning of a word.

• The dictionary definition of a word. The literal meaning.

• It is the negative meaning of a word.

A fire of unknown cause ate the thirty village houses.

• denotative

• connotative

Let us intensify and keep the fire burning into our hearts.

• denotative

• connotative

Author's craft means

• the message or moral of a story

• the conclusion of the story

• the way an author writes

• None of the above

Characterization means

• the mood or feeling of a story

• when the author uses words to create images in your mind while you read

• the message or moral of the story

• how authors develop the characters in their story

What are different ways authors develop characters?

• By how characters act

• By how character speak in the story

• By how characters look

• All of the above

What is the author's message?

• 
  the "What" the author is saying; his/her main idea, theme or lesson being taught.

• the "How." How does the author go about achieving his message and purpose. ex: Characterization, Diction, Syntax, and Figurative Language

• "the Why." Why is the author sharing this idea, lesson or theme? Is he/she trying to persuade, entertain, inform.

• Metaphor/Simile, Hyperbole, Parallelism, Personification, Repetition, Symbolism, and Tone