Letters
What activity is the author thinking about in "You are the Electric Boogaloo"?
What does the suffix -ous mean?
"characterized by" or "full of"
What is denotation?
What is tone?
The way an author feels about a subject.
What is the verb mood of the sentence below?
Are you going to the football game tomorrow night?
Interrogative
What is the setting of "Just Be Yourself!"?
a library
Turn the word "humor" into an adjective using our suffix.
humorous
What is connotation?
The feelings associated with the word, or the meaning of the word in context
What can we look at to help us determine an author's tone?
Their word choices
What is the verb mood of the sentence below?
Please stop tapping your pencil during class.
Imperative
What do "Just Be Yourself!" and "You are the Electric Boogaloo" have in common?
They are writing to their younger selves.
They are encouraging.
They focus on parts of growing up.
Finish the sentence with a word ending in the suffix -ous.
I was starstruck when I ran into Taylor Swift at Walmart because she is so _________.
famous
Does the underlined word have a positive, negative, or neutral connotation?
There was a stench coming out of the locker in Mr. Hinson's room.
negative
What is the tone of the following passage?
“And the trees all died. They were orange trees. I don’t know why they died, they just died. Something wrong with the soil possibly or maybe the stuff we got from the nursery wasn’t the best. We complained about it. So we’ve got thirty kids there, each kid had his or her own little tree to plant and we’ve got these thirty dead trees. All these kids looking at these little brown sticks, it was depressing."
Unhappy
Pessimistic
What is the verb mood of the sentence below?
I don't get very good cell phone service at my house.
In "Just Be Yourself!", what advice does the author give her teen self?
Stop trying to find ways to fit in and learn to enjoy things for yourself.
The word rigor means "the quality of being extremely thorough, exhaustive, or accurate". Using your knowledge of the word rigor & the suffix -ous, which of the following actions would be described as rigorous.
Your dad letting you go to the park without asking any questions.
Your friend answering your questions with one word answers.
The doctor asking you lots of questions about your symptoms before determining your treatment.
The doctor asking you lots of questions about your symptoms before determining your treatment.
Does the underlined word have a positive, negative, or neutral connotation?
My friends and I walked to school.
neutral
What is the tone of the following passage?
“It was A LOW, DULL, QUICK SOUND – MUCH SUCH A SOUND AS A WATCH MAKES WHEN ENVELOPED IN COTTON. I gasped for breath, and yet the officers heard it not. I talked more quickly, more vehemently but the noise steadily increased. I arose and argued about trifles, in a high key and with violent gesticulations; but the noise steadily increased. Why WOULD they not be gone? I paced the floor to and fro with heavy strides, as if excited to fury by the observations of the men, but the noise steadily increased. What COULD I do?”
Nervous
Insane
Guilty
What is the verb mood of the sentence below?
If you study, you will do well on the test tomorrow.
Conditional
In "You are the Electric Boogaloo," what advice does the author give his teen self?
Keep dancing, for it is making you a creative and interesting person.
The word deviate means "to depart from an established course". Using your knowledge of the word deviate & the suffix -ous, which of the following actions would be described as devious.
Following the rules in the classroom.
Sneaking out of your house at night.
Asking for permission to go to the fair with your friends.
Sneaking out of your house at night
Does the underlined word have a positive, negative, or neutral connotation?
I wanted to buy a new pair of shoes, but my parents were too stingy.
negative
What is the tone of the following passage?
“It was very late and everyone had left the cafe except an old man who sat in the shadow the leaves of the tree made against the electric light. In the day time the street was dusty, but at night the dew settled the dust and the old man liked to sit late because he was deaf and now at night it was quiet and he felt the difference.”
Peaceful
Serene
What is the verb mood of the sentence below?
If I were you, I would ask Harry Styles to be my homecoming date.
Subjunctive