Cause & Effect
When one event makes another event happen, this relationship is being shown.
What is cause and effect?
The literal dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
Words that have similar meanings.
What are synonyms?
Words with opposite meanings.
What are antonyms?
If ice melts because of heat, the heat is the…
What is the cause?
In a story, the rainstorm caused the soccer game to be canceled. The canceled game is the…
What is the effect?
The emotional feeling or association connected to a word.
What is connotation?
A synonym for “happy.”
What is joyful? (answers may vary: glad, cheerful)
An antonym for “hot.”
What is cold?
A word’s emotional shade of meaning is its…
What is connotation?
Words like “because,” “since,” and “therefore” are examples of these types of clue words.
What are cause-and-effect signal words?
The word “slim” has a positive feeling, while “skinny” has a negative one. This shows a difference in…
What is connotation?
“Quick” and “rapid” are examples of this type of word pair.
What are synonyms?
“Generous” and “selfish” are this type of word pair.
What are antonyms?
“Brave” and “courageous” show this relationship.
What are synonyms?
If students study hard and then score high on a test, studying hard is the…
What is the cause?
Words with the same denotation but different emotional meanings are said to have different…
What are connotations?
If a text says a character is “furious,” a synonym that keeps the strong emotion would be this word.
What is enraged?
The antonym of “increase,” meaning to become smaller or less.
What is decrease?
“Optimistic” and “pessimistic” are examples of this.
What are antonyms?
An author shows that deforestation leads to soil erosion, which then causes flooding. This is an example of this type of cause-and-effect pattern.
What is a chain reaction (or causal chain)?
The word “home” suggests warmth and comfort, while “house” is more neutral. This difference is based on the word’s…
What is positive connotation?
Choose a precise synonym for “said” that shows anger.
What is shouted? (or exclaimed/yelled depending on context)
The antonym of “complex” that suggests something simple and easy to understand.
What is straightforward (or simple)?
A writer uses the word “childish” instead of “childlike” to create a negative feeling. This shows deliberate use of…
What is negative connotation?