Context Clues
What are context clues?
hints that the author gives to help define a word you don’t know. The clue may appear in the same sentence as the word you don’t know or in a nearby sentence.
What is figurative language?
a word or phrase that does not have its normal everyday, literal meaning.
What is tone?
an author’s attitude toward, or way of presenting the topic
What is mood?
The feeling the reader gets
What is the definition of connotation and denotation?
Denotation is the literal meaning connotation is the feeling you get when you hear the word.
What is the difference between Synonym and Antonym?
Synonyms have the same meaning, antonyms have the opposite meaning.
What is personification?
When you give human traits to no human things.
What type of tone is shown in the below sentence:
The spoiled child was not easily satisfied
Negative tone
What mood does the below sentence provide:
The school was dark and cold.
Lonely mood, negative mood.
What connotation does the word tranquil have below:
The boy looked tranquil as he slept.
A positive connotation.
What are the four types of context clues?
Synonym, Antonym, explanation and example.
What is an allusion?
A reference to something.
What are the 3 steps to finding an author's tone?
Find the subject, look at words used to describe the tone, use that to determine the tone.
What mood does the below sentence provide:
They commanded that I return to work.
Negative, upsetting mood
What is the denotation of the word ecstatic?
The hedgehog was ecstatic she had found a hole to burrow into.
Happy
What does irate mean?
Ian was so irate that he wanted to throw something, but he took a deep breath and then he felt better.
Angry
What figurative language is being used?
His heart was a block of ice.
Metaphor.
Which has an objective tone?
A. The movie I saw was three hours of torture.
B. I saw the movie on Saturday, it was three hours long.
C. I devoted three hours on Saturday, to a masterpiece of a movie.
B. I saw the movie on Saturday, it was three hours long.
What mood does the below sentence provide and what words help you find the mood:
I was surprised with many gifts on my birthday.
This has a positive, joyous mood. The words surprised and gifts.
Which word has a bigger impact connotation in the below sentence, dislikes or loathes:
The sight of green beans made Ava gag. She __ them.
Loathes
What does lethargic mean and what type of context clue is used?
Erica was feeling really lethargic on Sunday. She didn’t have any energy left after the amusement park trip.
Without energy/ laziness they use explanation
What figurative language is being used?
This kid was a young Albert Einstein.
Allusion
What is the tone and what words help you find the tone?
That waste of a movie really destroyed my Saturday.
Negative tone, words: waste and destroyed.
What specific mood does the below sentence provide and what words help you find the mood:
My dog passed away while I was at camp
Negative sad mood, because of the words passed away.
What is the connotation and denotation of the word Superior.
My old computer kept running out of batteries. My new one is superior.
D= better
C= positive