Reading Unit 2: Shades Of Meaning
It's a cloudy, cold, and rainy day. Someone looks out the window and says, "Wow, what wonderful weather! Time to hit the beach." This is most likely:: verbal irony. When a character is unaware of something, but the audience knows the truth:: dramatic irony. When Dally suggests hiding in a Church to escape an arrest:: situational irony. Which is NOT an oxymoron: : season's greetings. What skill encourages us to draw out conclusions and deeper ideas from the text: Inferring. Which has a more neutral connotation: Relaxed. Selecting a word for its specific connotation is an example of ___________. This conveys the __________ . : Diction, tone. ________ is the speaker's attitude towards something or someone: tone. __________ describes the emotional atmosphere created in the text: mood. Representing sudden changes in mood and tone can be described as a __________. : shift. What was the significance of anagrams to Will? They represented...: a false equivalency. Hanging over my brothers body LIKE a dimmed light post" is an example of what: simile. How does Will learn empathy: From listening to the ghosts. This poem represents: flashback. What is ironic about Will "confessing"? : People confess to doing bad things. Will is confessing to having a sense of right and wrong. . Reynolds uses a concrete poem here to : All of the above