Determining the Meaning of Words

What is the dictionary definition of a word called?

• demotion

• connotation

• annotation

• denotation

What is meant by the connotation of a word?

• how you the reader feels emotionally about the words

• how the speaker feels emotionally about the words.

• how the characters feel emotionally about the words.

• all of the above

"Why school?" I challenged my father openly. "I shall never do anything to annoy you."

What is the connotative meaning of the word challenged in the sentence above?

• contest

• questioned

• dared

• argued

Part B

Which piece of evidence best supports the answer to Part A?

• A. "Why school?"

• my father

• openly

• shall never do

• annoy you

Which of the following words is an allusion?

• Laestrygonians

• Ithaka

• the islands

• all of the above