Unit 3 Test Review

What's on the test???

• 15 points

• ALL multiple choice!

• Covers content from the Study Guide

• Read excerpts about Frederick Douglass and watch this Crash Course

Any tips???

• Don’t just choose the longest answer! Teachers are sneaky!!!

• Always look for context clues; many of these questions can be answered correctly if you look closely around underlined words and phrases.

• Read the whole excerpt before answering questions about it.

The feelings or ideas a word makes you think of beyond the dictionary definition.
This is entirely about emotion/opinion.

Connotation (Subjective)

The dictionary defintion of a word.
There's no emotion or opinion in these responses.
Straightforward

Denotation (Objective)

Helpful Terms and Definitions:

• Inference - a smart guess based on clues from the text and your knowledge

• Tone - the author's attitude or feeling toward the subject, shown through their style and word choice

• Central Idea - the most important point the author wanst you to know

• Details - pieces of information that support or explain the central idea

• Theme - the message of the text that can be compared to other texts

A word part added to the beginning or end of a base word to change its meaning.

Affix

An affix added to the beginning of a word (like pre- in preview).

Prefix

An affix added to the end of a word (like -ful in helpful).

Suffix

This is what the definition of a word looks like:

Eq-ui-ty /ˈekwədē/ n.

1. the quality of being fair and impartial

2. the value of shares issued by a company