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Connotation Denotation

Test Description: Connotation and Denotation

Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.

1) Which word has a positive connotation?

Acheap Binexpensive

2) Which word has a negative connotation?

Acurious Bnosy

3) Choose the sentence that uses the negative connotation of the word in ALL CAPS.

AVisit our marketplaces to spend your money on our famous COLLECTIBLES. BHotel staffers will bring you STINKY foods that are native to the region. CWhen you arrive, hotel staffers in EXOTIC costumes will greet you. DWe want you to visit our TRANQUIL island.

4) Which phrase has a positive connotation?

Aa scrawny dancer Ba slender dancer

5) The term that means the feelings and ideas associated with a word.

APersonification BDefinition CConnotation DSenence

6) Read these lines from the poem. Sewn with blue yarn and stamped with striped bass—Catawba, Combahee, Congaree; Savannah, Saluda, Santee. What figurative language is used in these lines?

Aalliteration Bmetaphor Coxymoron Donomatopoiea

7) The actual dictionary definition of a word

Aconnotation Bplot Cdenotation Dpersonification

8) What type of figurative language the naming of a thing or action by imitation of natural sounds, such as buzz and hiss?

Apersonification Bmetaphor Csimile Donomatopoeia

9) What type of figurative language is a figure of speech that uses contradictory terms, which means words that don’t appear to go well together, like icy hot or pretty ugly?

Asimile Bsentence Coxymoron Dmetaphor

10) What is denotation?

AThe feelings surrounding a word. BHuman characteristics CThe dictionary defintion DSound devices

*select an answer for all questions

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