Denotation and Connotation — Unit test Answers

Which is a characteristic of Greek myths?

Read the excerpt from "Object Lesson 1".In his nose was the pungent smell of ink, glue, paper, chalk, musty wardrobe closets; surrounding him were discolored walls, peeling paint, tarnished fixtures, warped window poles, and mutilated desks.

Choose the meaning that gives a negative connotation for “small house.”

Read the excerpt from "Object Lesson 1".In his nose was the pungent smell of ink, glue, paper, chalk, musty wardrobe closets; surrounding him were discolored walls, peeling paint, tarnished fixtures, warped window poles, and mutilated desks.

Look at the photograph.

Look at the text feature.

Which statement helps distinguish between a memoir and a documentary?

Identify the reason that best explains why the director of Moving Windmills might have wanted to share William Kamkwamba’s story through film rather than through writing.

Read the excerpt about Mary Kingsley from Into the Unknown by Stewart Ross.How would she travel upriver? By now, paddle-wheel steamers regularly journeyed as passenger ferries along African rivers. On the morning of June 5, Kingsley set off from the port of Glass on the Mové, a French paddle steamer with a wood-burning boiler. By now steam technology had greatly improved.

One way a reader can connect text evidence to an idea is to

Which excerpt from “The Myth of Hercules” is the best example of heroism in a Greek myth?

Identify the reason that best explains why the director of Moving Windmills might have wanted to share William Kamkwamba’s story through film rather than through writing.

Read this excerpt from “The Myth of Hercules.” Hera cast a terrible spell on Hercules. She made Hercules lazy and tired. Instead of leading other warriors into battle and defending his home, Hercules spent his days sleeping. Without his leadership, his town fell to the enemy. When the spell was broken, Hercules was horrified by what had happened while he slept so comfortably.

Read the excerpt from "Object Lesson 1".Ellery hurried down West 92nd Street toward the main entrance of Henry Hudson High School stealing guilty glances at his watch. Miss Carpenter had been crisply specific about place, date, and time: her homeroom, 109; Friday morning, April 22nd; first period ("Bell at 8:40, Mr. Queen").

Read the excerpt from Into the Unknown by Stewart Ross.It was soon clear that the Ma Robert had serious design faults. Her engine was not powerful enough to drive her upstream against strong currents, and her boiler consumed vast quantities of wood: a day’s steaming needed one and a half day’s wood-cutting. Her hull was made of thin sheets of a new kind of steel that had not been tested. It soon developed so many holes that it leaked like a colander and had to be continually pumped out. “For us, steam was no labor-saving power,” Livingstone grumbled in his journal. He called the Ma Robert all sorts of names: “the wretched little steamer,” the “tin kettle,” and “the slow puffing Asthmatic.”