Practice ConnotationDenotation examples What does each set of words actually mean What connotation does each word portray 1 Inquisitive Interested Curious Convivial Inquisitive can mean that someone asks too many questions ID: 237408
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Lit Terms #1
PracticeSlide2
Connotation/Denotation examples
What does each set of words actually mean? What connotation does each word portray?
1. Inquisitive
, Interested, Curious, Convivial
Inquisitive can mean that someone asks too many questions.
2. Confident, Secure, Proud, Egotistical
Proud and egotistical mean that someone thinks very highly of themselves.
3. Lovely, Knockout, Beautiful, Stunning
Although knockout can be taken as a compliment, it can also be considered sexist when referring to a woman.
4. Talkative, Conversational, Chatty, Nosy
Talkative and chatty can mean that someone talks too much; and nosy that someone asks too many questions.Slide3
For the Following slides:
Use your vocab words to identify the examples
The examples can be: Imagery, Personification, Hyperbole, understatement, Oxymoron, Synecdoche, Metonymy, Simile,
Metaphor
“It was so cold, I saw polar bears wearing jackets”
HyperboleSlide4
“I have to have this operation. It isn't very serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the brain."
UnderstatementSlide5
Deafening silence
OxymoronSlide6
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shineAnd twinkle on the Milky Way
ImagerySlide7
He is the apple of my eye
MetaphorSlide8
"Land ho! All
hands
on deck!"
SynecdocheSlide9
The waitress told
her manager, “The ham sandwich left a big tip.”
Metonymy Slide10
They are as different as night and day.
SimileSlide11
Clearly confused
OxymoronSlide12
“I’ve told you a million times”
HyperboleSlide13
The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky.
PersonificationSlide14
That went over like a lead balloon.
SimileSlide15
I am experiencing a rollercoaster of emotions today
MetaphorSlide16
“The car accident wasn’t that bad, just 5,000 dollars in damages.”
UnderstatementSlide17
The run down house appeared depressed.
PersonificationSlide18
"In a corner,
a cluster of lab coats
made lunch plans."
MetonymySlide19
"Take thy
face
hence."
SynecdocheSlide20
mood
The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes
The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes
Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains, Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys
What is the mood?
Sad/MelancholySlide21
Tone
"Oh! No mortal could support the horror of that countenance. A mummy again
endued with
animation could not be so hideous as that wretch. I had gazed on him while unfinished; he was ugly then; but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived.“
What is the tone?Terror, scary, horrific
"I shall be telling this with a sigh/Somewhere ages and ages hence:/Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,/I took the one less traveled by,/And that has made all the difference
.“What is the tone?
sullen, unhappy, regretful