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Question
In the following sentence, which word is connotative?
It was a bittersweet moment. I was leaving home, starting a new life, and leaving childhood behind.
A Bittersweet
B Was
C Home
D Life
Answer
Answer A is correct. Bittersweet suggests a particular emotion. Without the information the author
provides us in the latter part of the passage, we wouldn’t understand the full meaning of the
sentence. Home has both a denotative and connotative quality in this passage. Though the author is
literally leaving a home—a house with four walls—he or she is leaving the idea of home: comfort, security,
and memories.
Question
Classify the underlined phrase:
He was my best friend, good as gold.
A Adage
B Idiom
C Simile
D Metaphor
Answer
Answer C is the right choice. The indicator as in this particular passage tells us that it is a simile. If the
passage had told us he had a “heart of gold,” we would have recognized it as a metaphor.
