Read the passage from “Pie Diary”

Question

I pasted a recipe clipped from a library cookbook (don’t tell!) into my pie diary and got to work.And that’s how I ended up in the kitchen with cherry pie filling burning my shins, my daytime babysitter shoveling red mound off the floor with a spatula, I was a week out out from baking the real thing, and my latest test run was in PIECES— and not neatly sliced pieces

In 1-2 sentences, explain the denotation of the word “pieces” (bold lettering) and its connotation in this passage

Answer 1

The denotation of "pieces" in this passage refers to the cherry pie being in fragments or broken. The connotation of "pieces" in this context suggests frustration, disappointment, and failure in the baking process.