Week 2 (Period 4) ELA Vocabulary/Content Quiz

What is the correct definition of figurative language?

• a word that has the same root meaning as another word in a different language.

• to say the same idea or information in a different way.

• language used in an imaginative way to express ideas that are not literally true. 

  
  

• a word’s exact, literal meaning

What is the correct definition of cognate?

• a word that has the same root meaning as another word in a different language.

• to say the same idea or information in a different way.

• language used in an imaginative way to express ideas that are not literally true. 

  
  

• a word’s exact, literal meaning

What is the correct definition of paraphrase?

• a word that has the same root meaning as another word in a different language.

• to say the same idea or information in a different way.

• language used in an imaginative way to express ideas that are not literally true. 

  
  

• a word’s exact, literal meaning

What is the correct definition of connotation?

• a word that has the same root meaning as another word in a different language.

• to say the same idea or information in a different way.

• language used in an imaginative way to express ideas that are not literally true. 

  
  

• a suggested or implied meaning or emotion associated  with a word beyond its literal meaning

  
  

What is the correct definition of Possessive Noun?

• a word that has the same root meaning as another word in a different language.

• to say the same idea or information in a different way.

• language used in an imaginative way to express ideas that are not literally true. 

  
  

• a noun that indicates ownership or possession of something

  
  

What is the correct definition of a irregular noun?

• a noun that indicates ownership or possession of something

• nouns that do not follow the standard pattern of pluralization that regular nouns follow

• language used in an imaginative way to express ideas that are not literally true. 

  
  

• a suggested or implied meaning or emotion associated  with a word beyond its literal meaning

  
  

What is the correct definition of a denotation?

• a word’s exact, literal meaning

• nouns that do not follow the standard pattern of pluralization that regular nouns follow

• language used in an imaginative way to express ideas that are not literally true. 

  
  

• a suggested or implied meaning or emotion associated  with a word beyond its literal meaning

  
  

Personal Narrative should be about experiences that have happened to you like what happened to Marta in the Scholarship Jacket

• true

• false

A Personal Narrative should be about day to day activities NOT something that is important to you.

• True

• False

What is Grandpa saying to Marta when he says, “Then if you pay for it, Marta, it's not a scholarship jacket, is it? Tell your principal I will not pay the fifteen dollars.”

• He does not have enough money to pay for the jacket.

• If Marta has to pay for it, it no longer has anything to do with her academic accomplishments.

• He thinks that the school board should pay for the jacket.

• Rosie already has a jacket so Marta can wear her jacket.