WorksheetsQuiz for the Week of April 15-19, 2024
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 34mins
Connotation refers to the positive and negative feelings and emotions attached to words and phrases. Group the following words under the two categories.
Guest
Confident
Curious
Persuasive
Inexpensive
Intruder
Arrogant
Nosy
Manipulative
Cheap
Choose the word that has a positive connotation to complete the sentence below: The audience had a (a) on their faces during the performance.
Which phrase has a more negative connotation?
Match the following
Simile
A comparison using 'like' or 'as'
Metaphor
A direct comparison without 'like' or 'as'
Hyperbole
An extreme exaggeration
Alliteration
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
Onomatopoeia
The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
What does the idiom in the text below suggest?
Cell phones once cost an arm and a leg, but today the majority of people can afford them.
Cell phones used to be very expensive.
What figurative device is used in the following text?
The lighthouse horn moaned, and the sound traveled through the thick fog, reaching the sailors.
What does the metaphor in this text suggest?
Laughter is sunshine; it chases winter from the human face.
What does the idiom in the following text suggest?
Mr. and Mrs. Boyd usually see eye to eye, but not when it comes to religious issues.
What does the metaphor below mean?
He reads incessantly; new ideas are food for his mind.
What does the personification in this text suggest?
Raymond tried to ignore his unfinished essay, but it stares at him from across the room.
Raymond is staring at the essay
The essay is speaking to Raymond
It bothered Raymond that the essay wasn't done.
The essay is physically moving towards Raymond
What does the metaphor in the following text suggest?
Conscience is a man's compass.
Mark was sick of getting a dozen annoying e-mails with jokes from Sally every day. He wrote a sloppy reply letting her know that he wasn't allowed to receive silly e-mails at school.
What does the word "sick" suggest Mark was feeling as it is used in the first sentence of this story?
full
nauseous
fed up with
bored
Which word has a negative connotation?
Childlike
Youthful
Immature
Young
After math class, Chou's head was spinning from all the information that would be on the test.
Chou was feeling confused.
Chou was feeling very confident.
Chou is thinking about science class.
Which of the following options would make this sentence an example of onomatopoeia?
The car horn (a) .
(a) is repeating the same beginning consonant sounds.
Ex: Silly Sam swam sideways.
Which of the following is an example of hyperbole?
I'm so hungry I could eat a sandwich.
I've heard that joke a thousand times.
The test was easy.
The water was cold.
In Chapter 3 of 'The Skin I'm In' by Sharon G. Flake, where do Char, Maleeka and the twins hangout during school?
Why did Caleb stop sitting with Maleeka on the school trip to Washington DC?
Maleeka fell asleep
and drooled
Caleb decided to sit with popular students.
Maleeka told him she
liked him.
Maleeka threw up on
the bus
Why does Maleeka think that Malcolm Moore is fine?
because he is half and half
because he is the doctor of love
because he looks more like his dad than his mom.
because he has a girlfriend
