What is the definition of denotation?(1 point)

Question

The atmosphere or emotional quality of a text.
The author’s attitude toward events and characters.
The associations attached to a word.
The literal meaning of a word.

What is the definition of connotation?(1 point)
The slight degrees of difference in a word’s meaning.
The associations attached to a word.
The atmosphere or emotional quality of a text.
The literal meaning of a word.

Sinking and Swaddled
by Beth Gilstrap
Ona walked for days, determined to find safety on higher ground. If she read her instruments correctly, she was
adjacent to a national forest. The public would not stand for the sinking of a national forest so when she found a
slate bungalow, she settled there. Though two walls were missing, she concluded it was due to wind and rain and
the birch tree that had swindled its way up and through the middle of the sweet, abandoned home. It wasn’t
sinking

Use the paragraph to answer the question.
What central idea is conveyed by the use of sensory and kinesthetic imagery in the sentence?
(1 point)
Ona is worried about the damage she sees at the bungalow and suspects it
will decay further.
Ona will only stay briefly in an abandoned bungalow because it is missing two
walls.
Ona finds a bungalow that is falling apart but feels safer there than where
she was before.
Ona does not want to stay at the damaged bungalow she finds on her way to
the national forest.

What is the purpose of a story’s tone?(1 point)
To foreshadow what the author knows but the characters do not.
To create a visual picture of the setting for the reader.
To reveal the author’s attitude about the characters and events.
To evoke an emotional response from the reader.

Sinking and Swaddled
by Beth Gilstrap
She swore she felt the earth drop—like a hitch in an elevator—several miles from her mother’s house. She thought
of all those bedlinens agitated, curled, heaped on top of her mother, sunk along with everything else, beams, roof
tiles, the acrylic nails her mom wore, the senselessness of waste. Her father had sunk, too. Years ago, in a prefab
home out on the lake. One day the lake rose a mite and the ground dove a mite and from what her mother said,
her father was better off down there, probably still passed out on his leather couch. Ona had been swaddled and
maneuvered into the bow of a rowboat and, as legend tells, slept through the whole affair. Perhaps it was this
swaddling she longed for more than anything with all this terrible sinking going on.

Use the passage to answer the question.
Which best describes the mood that is created by the language in this passage?
(1 point)
insecure
suspenseful
desperate
optimistic

Answer 1

1. What is the definition of denotation?

   • The literal meaning of a word.

2. What is the definition of connotation?

   • The associations attached to a word.

3. What central idea is conveyed by the use of sensory and kinesthetic imagery in the sentence?

   • Ona finds a bungalow that is falling apart but feels safer there than where she was before.

4. What is the purpose of a story’s tone?

   • To reveal the author’s attitude about the characters and events.

5. Which best describes the mood that is created by the language in this passage?

   • desperate