Figurative
Connotative
Technical
Identify the type of meaning for the words used
100
The definition of figurative meaning is ____________
words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation
100
The definition of connotative meaning is ____________
signifying or suggestive of an associative or secondary meaning in addition to the primary meaning
100
The definition of technical meaning is ____________
words or groups of words that relate to a specific process or activity
100
My backpack weighs a ton!
figurative
200
What type of figurative language is used in the image?
personification
200
What type of connotation is used for the word orphan in the image below?
negative
200
What technical words are used in the comic?
contusion, thoracic vertebra, exacerbating, proximal sternum
200
There's no place like home.
connotative
300
What kind of figurative language is this: the road was a ribbon of moonlight?
metaphor
300
Mama's meaning in the image below may be interpreted as ___________
a person who will "protect" you forever
300
According to the comic, you can replace the words for a longer phone cable with ___________
upgraded RJ 11 cable
300
If the attorney can establish that the detention is prima facie illegal, the court may order the police to justify the detention.
technical
400
What is the literal meaning of the image below?
It is raining heavily.
400
What type of connotations are each of the phrases?
1. That's a nice necklace.
2. That's a gaudy necklace.
3. That's a glamorous necklace.
1. neutral
2. negative
3. positive
400
In what career field would this excerpt be applied?
Advances in the technology of high density, relativistic electron beams have made exciting new applications practical realities. A sampling of these new applications include Compton scattering sources, electron cooling of protons and heavy ions stored in a ring, energy recovery linac (ERL) light sources, free-electron lasers (FELs), inverse FELs and ultrafast electron diffraction.
physics
400
figurative
500
I Know Why the Cage Bird Sings by Maya Angelou is executed by metaphors. What does the bird represent?
But a BIRD that stalks down his narrow cage
Can seldom see through his bars of rage
His wings are clipped and his feet are tied
The caged bird sings with a fearful trill …
And his tune is heard on the distant hill for
The caged bird sings of freedom.
A bird in a cage represents the oppression of a group of people who can't get freedom. It sings for a better future, in which it's free.
500
Consider the following quote from William Shakespeare’s Macbeth:
Where we are,
There’s daggers in men’s smiles.
What is the connotation of the word “daggers”?
danger
500
What can be deduced from this excerpt of Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried?
On an afternoon in 1969 the platoon took sniper fire . . . It only lasted a minute or two and nobody was hurt, but even so Lieutenant Jimmy Cross got on the radio and ordered an air strike.
A concealed enemy tried to attack a group of soldiers with a sniper, but they didn't injure anybody and the person in charge of the soldiers ordered a counter-attack.
500
True! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How then am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily, how calmly, I can tell you the whole story.
connotative