Word Choice

Read the following passage:

"He's very influential in the clowning community," she whispered to her friend, pointing to the tall man in loose pants and rainbow suspenders striding across the room. "He's a great artist. Balloon animals have never been the same."

How does the author intend the word "influential" to be taken in this passage?

Read the following sentence:

The hedgehog was ecstatic-- She had found a hole to burrow into, and she was happily settled beneath the ground, excited to sleep the day away.

Based on the context clues, what is the denotation of the word "ecstatic" in the passage?

Read the following passage:

After winning the spelling bee, Bridget became confident. "I can spell any word in the universe," she insisted loudly, even in places where it was not required to spell things. Like at the movies with her friends.

Her best friend, annoyed, said, "I bet you can't spell a word in German." Bridget did not speak German.

"I probably can," she insisted,"I mean, how hard can it be, right?"

How does the author intend the word "confident" to be taken in this passage?

Words that have the same denotation are called ________.

When you look up a word in the dictionary, you find its ___________.

What is the term for the emotions that a word stirs in a reader?

The dentotation is the ______ meaning of a word.

4. Connotation is...

What is the tone of the following sentence:

Kareem made a silly face at Beth.

Referring to someone's house as a "shack" would have a _____ connotation (feeling).

What is mood?