Question
Choose the best answer.
The English language has many _______ from groups or cultures.
variations
different alphabets
punctuation types
2) Choose the best answer.
If a reader does not pay attention to the context when looking up a word in a dictionary, it could cause a(n) _______.
misunderstanding
verbal
nuance
3) Choose the best answer.
A reader must also know the _______—how the word is used in a sentence—to figure out the meaning and use it correctly.
verbal irony
variations
part of speech
4) Choose the best answer.
To determine nuance, the context, connotation, and ________ should be considered.
genre
subtext
writer
5) Choose the best answer.
A reader needs to understand how words are being used in a text to _______ the meanings.
contrast
imagine
analyze
6) Choose the best answer.
If a person says "You did great on that exam," when that person knows you failed, then that person is being ______.
argumentative
contradictory
sarcastic
7) Choose the best answer.
In the Disney movie, Beauty and the Beast, Belle dislikes Gaston intensely. He is always asking to marry her, and she answers, “I don’t deserve you.” This is an example of _______.
harassment
verbal irony
paradox
8) Drag and drop the terms with the definitions.
the primary meaning of a word
author’s attitude
viewpoint
when words are not used for what they actually mean
circumstances or environment of an event or word meaning
underlying theme and intent
suggestive meaning of a word
slight difference in meaning, expression, or sound
Choices
subtext
verbal irony
connotation
denotation
perspective
nuance
context
tone
Chapter one: The Impetus and the Method
1All of the intricacies of how, where and just what, evolved slowly, but this in brief was our general plan: First of all we must choose the ground for our investigation. Since Italy sends not only three times more immigrants than any other country, but a larger proportion of the sort (that) are objected to in America, it was plain that our work lay among the Italians. We must know the language well enough to ask questions and understand answers; we must know the conditions of Italian life in America in order to know what good and what evil things to trace to their sources. To understand the people properly, we must live with them and be of them, and, to get the fullest grasp on the process of their transmutation we must become immigrants ourselves and re-enter our own country as strangers and aliens.
2Therefore we must take up our abode in the Italian quarter, and, when duly prepared and informed, voyage to the home land with some of the returning Italians and, having learned the actual conditions there, come back in the steerage and pass through Ellis Island, bringing with us some typical immigrant family whose exact circumstances we had fully learned in their native community.
3Using them as a central strand, we would weave a story of small things that should be worthy of being taken into reckoning by thinking minds, as a new and important fund of information.
4Though we knew full well the hardships which we must endure for many long months, the difficulties which would arise like forbidding barriers, I am free to say that the things on which we had counted and against which we had armed ourselves did not come to pass for the most part; while a multitude of things happened that were as unexpected as gold in breakfast food.
5Work began at once, by the book, on the language, and while in the wilds of Yucatan in February we were studying Italian. In March we landed in New York late one night from the Ward Liner Monterey, and the very next day went into the Italian quarter seeking a place to live. When we had been in the reeking streets, amid the tumult of innumerable children, and had entered a few of the tenements, my wife turned pale and sick and said:
6“Don’t think I am faltering at the threshold; but, please, if we must go through all this, let us have a week of comfort and preparation. Then we will take the plunge.”
7Thus I knew how much harder it was for her, with all her love of comfort and her accustomedness to it, to forsake it for any purpose, however important or worthwhile, than it was for me, who, manlike, enjoy “the fare of the field, and the habit of the strange land.” And thereafter, particularly when we were in the steerage of the Prinzessin Irene and were bound home, actually counting the half-hours of the twelve-day voyage amid utter wretchedness, never did I hear one complaint from her lips or did she give other sign of failing.
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Answer the following questions.
9) Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Determine the word meanings by using the context and a dictionary resource, if necessary. Then, choose the best answer.
The word ground means ________.
the field of land
landing
item for study
10) Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Determine the word meanings by using the context and a dictionary resource, if necessary. Then, choose the best answer.
The word trace means ________.
outline
small amount
investigate
11) Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Determine the word meanings by using the context and a dictionary resource, if necessary. Then, choose the best answer.
The word transmutation means ________.
transportation
immigration
complete change
12) Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Determine the word meanings by using the context and a dictionary resource, if necessary. Then, choose the best answer.
The definition of steerage is ________.
move the opposite direction
a small boat
low-priced passage area in a ship
13) Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Determine the word meanings by using the context and a dictionary resource, if necessary. Then, choose the best answer.
The definition for armed is _______.
held in one’s arms
kept guns
gotten ready for
14) Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Determine the word meanings by using the context and a dictionary resource, if necessary. Then, choose the best answer.
Tumult means ________.
storm
trouble
loud roar
15) Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Determine the word meanings by using the context and a dictionary resource, if necessary. Then, choose the best answer.
Take the plunge is used _________.
connotatively and negatively
connotatively
negatively
16) Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Determine the word meanings by using the context and a dictionary resource, if necessary. Then, choose the best answer.
Utter wretchedness is used ________.
positively
denotatively and negatively
negatively
17) Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Determine the word meanings by using the context and a dictionary resource, if necessary. Then, choose the best answer.
What are the author and his wife’s plans?
to uncover truth and find out who are mistreating the immigrants
to disguise themselves as immigrants to explain their experiences
to uncover truth and find out who are mistreating the immigrants, and to disguise themselves as immigrants to explain their experiences
The English language has many _______ from groups or cultures.
variations
different alphabets
punctuation types
2) Choose the best answer.
If a reader does not pay attention to the context when looking up a word in a dictionary, it could cause a(n) _______.
misunderstanding
verbal
nuance
3) Choose the best answer.
A reader must also know the _______—how the word is used in a sentence—to figure out the meaning and use it correctly.
verbal irony
variations
part of speech
4) Choose the best answer.
To determine nuance, the context, connotation, and ________ should be considered.
genre
subtext
writer
5) Choose the best answer.
A reader needs to understand how words are being used in a text to _______ the meanings.
contrast
imagine
analyze
6) Choose the best answer.
If a person says "You did great on that exam," when that person knows you failed, then that person is being ______.
argumentative
contradictory
sarcastic
7) Choose the best answer.
In the Disney movie, Beauty and the Beast, Belle dislikes Gaston intensely. He is always asking to marry her, and she answers, “I don’t deserve you.” This is an example of _______.
harassment
verbal irony
paradox
8) Drag and drop the terms with the definitions.
the primary meaning of a word
author’s attitude
viewpoint
when words are not used for what they actually mean
circumstances or environment of an event or word meaning
underlying theme and intent
suggestive meaning of a word
slight difference in meaning, expression, or sound
Choices
subtext
verbal irony
connotation
denotation
perspective
nuance
context
tone
Chapter one: The Impetus and the Method
1All of the intricacies of how, where and just what, evolved slowly, but this in brief was our general plan: First of all we must choose the ground for our investigation. Since Italy sends not only three times more immigrants than any other country, but a larger proportion of the sort (that) are objected to in America, it was plain that our work lay among the Italians. We must know the language well enough to ask questions and understand answers; we must know the conditions of Italian life in America in order to know what good and what evil things to trace to their sources. To understand the people properly, we must live with them and be of them, and, to get the fullest grasp on the process of their transmutation we must become immigrants ourselves and re-enter our own country as strangers and aliens.
2Therefore we must take up our abode in the Italian quarter, and, when duly prepared and informed, voyage to the home land with some of the returning Italians and, having learned the actual conditions there, come back in the steerage and pass through Ellis Island, bringing with us some typical immigrant family whose exact circumstances we had fully learned in their native community.
3Using them as a central strand, we would weave a story of small things that should be worthy of being taken into reckoning by thinking minds, as a new and important fund of information.
4Though we knew full well the hardships which we must endure for many long months, the difficulties which would arise like forbidding barriers, I am free to say that the things on which we had counted and against which we had armed ourselves did not come to pass for the most part; while a multitude of things happened that were as unexpected as gold in breakfast food.
5Work began at once, by the book, on the language, and while in the wilds of Yucatan in February we were studying Italian. In March we landed in New York late one night from the Ward Liner Monterey, and the very next day went into the Italian quarter seeking a place to live. When we had been in the reeking streets, amid the tumult of innumerable children, and had entered a few of the tenements, my wife turned pale and sick and said:
6“Don’t think I am faltering at the threshold; but, please, if we must go through all this, let us have a week of comfort and preparation. Then we will take the plunge.”
7Thus I knew how much harder it was for her, with all her love of comfort and her accustomedness to it, to forsake it for any purpose, however important or worthwhile, than it was for me, who, manlike, enjoy “the fare of the field, and the habit of the strange land.” And thereafter, particularly when we were in the steerage of the Prinzessin Irene and were bound home, actually counting the half-hours of the twelve-day voyage amid utter wretchedness, never did I hear one complaint from her lips or did she give other sign of failing.
_____________________________________________________________________________
Answer the following questions.
9) Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Determine the word meanings by using the context and a dictionary resource, if necessary. Then, choose the best answer.
The word ground means ________.
the field of land
landing
item for study
10) Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Determine the word meanings by using the context and a dictionary resource, if necessary. Then, choose the best answer.
The word trace means ________.
outline
small amount
investigate
11) Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Determine the word meanings by using the context and a dictionary resource, if necessary. Then, choose the best answer.
The word transmutation means ________.
transportation
immigration
complete change
12) Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Determine the word meanings by using the context and a dictionary resource, if necessary. Then, choose the best answer.
The definition of steerage is ________.
move the opposite direction
a small boat
low-priced passage area in a ship
13) Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Determine the word meanings by using the context and a dictionary resource, if necessary. Then, choose the best answer.
The definition for armed is _______.
held in one’s arms
kept guns
gotten ready for
14) Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Determine the word meanings by using the context and a dictionary resource, if necessary. Then, choose the best answer.
Tumult means ________.
storm
trouble
loud roar
15) Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Determine the word meanings by using the context and a dictionary resource, if necessary. Then, choose the best answer.
Take the plunge is used _________.
connotatively and negatively
connotatively
negatively
16) Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Determine the word meanings by using the context and a dictionary resource, if necessary. Then, choose the best answer.
Utter wretchedness is used ________.
positively
denotatively and negatively
negatively
17) Read the excerpt from Imported Americans by Broughton Brandenburg. Determine the word meanings by using the context and a dictionary resource, if necessary. Then, choose the best answer.
What are the author and his wife’s plans?
to uncover truth and find out who are mistreating the immigrants
to disguise themselves as immigrants to explain their experiences
to uncover truth and find out who are mistreating the immigrants, and to disguise themselves as immigrants to explain their experiences
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Here are the best answers to your questions:
1) The English language has many **variations** from groups or cultures.
2) If a reader does not pay attention to the context when looking up a word in a dictionary, it could cause a(n) **misunderstanding**.
3) A reader must also know the **part of speech**—how the word is used in a sentence—to figure out the meaning and use it correctly.
4) To determine nuance, the context, connotation, and **subtext** should be considered.
5) A reader needs to understand how words are being used in a text to **analyze** the meanings.
6) If a person says "You did great on that exam," when that person knows you failed, then that person is being **sarcastic**.
7) In the Disney movie, Beauty and the Beast, Belle dislikes Gaston intensely. He is always asking to marry her, and she answers, “I don’t deserve you.” This is an example of **verbal irony**.
8) Drag and drop definitions:
- the primary meaning of a word: **denotation**
- author’s attitude: **tone**
- viewpoint: **perspective**
- when words are not used for what they actually mean: **verbal irony**
- circumstances or environment of an event or word meaning: **context**
- underlying theme and intent: **subtext**
- suggestive meaning of a word: **connotation**
- slight difference in meaning, expression, or sound: **nuance**
9) The word ground means **item for study**.
10) The word trace means **investigate**.
11) The word transmutation means **complete change**.
12) The definition of steerage is **low-priced passage area in a ship**.
13) The definition for armed is **gotten ready for**.
14) Tumult means **loud roar**.
15) Take the plunge is used **connotatively**.
16) Utter wretchedness is used **negatively**.
17) What are the author and his wife’s plans? **to uncover truth and find out who are mistreating the immigrants, and to disguise themselves as immigrants to explain their experiences**.
1) The English language has many **variations** from groups or cultures.
2) If a reader does not pay attention to the context when looking up a word in a dictionary, it could cause a(n) **misunderstanding**.
3) A reader must also know the **part of speech**—how the word is used in a sentence—to figure out the meaning and use it correctly.
4) To determine nuance, the context, connotation, and **subtext** should be considered.
5) A reader needs to understand how words are being used in a text to **analyze** the meanings.
6) If a person says "You did great on that exam," when that person knows you failed, then that person is being **sarcastic**.
7) In the Disney movie, Beauty and the Beast, Belle dislikes Gaston intensely. He is always asking to marry her, and she answers, “I don’t deserve you.” This is an example of **verbal irony**.
8) Drag and drop definitions:
- the primary meaning of a word: **denotation**
- author’s attitude: **tone**
- viewpoint: **perspective**
- when words are not used for what they actually mean: **verbal irony**
- circumstances or environment of an event or word meaning: **context**
- underlying theme and intent: **subtext**
- suggestive meaning of a word: **connotation**
- slight difference in meaning, expression, or sound: **nuance**
9) The word ground means **item for study**.
10) The word trace means **investigate**.
11) The word transmutation means **complete change**.
12) The definition of steerage is **low-priced passage area in a ship**.
13) The definition for armed is **gotten ready for**.
14) Tumult means **loud roar**.
15) Take the plunge is used **connotatively**.
16) Utter wretchedness is used **negatively**.
17) What are the author and his wife’s plans? **to uncover truth and find out who are mistreating the immigrants, and to disguise themselves as immigrants to explain their experiences**.
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