For each of the following word groups, choose the connotation that fits each word: a positive, negative, or neutral. each word will have at least one word flavor (connotation). proud, vain, conceited, self-assured spinster, unmarried, career-minded, old maid shack, house, mansion, residence, dump happy, elated, ecstatic, content, pompous talkative, verbose, friendly

Proud and self assured have positive connotations, while vain and conceited have negative connotations.

Spinster and old maid have negative connotations, while career-minded has a positive and unmarried a neutral connotation.

Shack and dump have negative connotations, house and residence, neutral, and mansion, positive.

Happy and content have positive connotations, and elated, ecstatic and pompous have negative connotations.

Talkative has a negative connotation, verbose, neutral, and friendly, positive.

1. Positive: self-assure; Negative: vain, conceited, Neutral: proud

2. Positive: career-minded; Negative: spinster, old-maid, Neutral: unmarried

3. Positive: mansion; Negative: shack, dump; Neutral: house, resident

4. Positive: elated, ecstatic; Negative: pompous Neutral: happy, content

5. Positive: friendly; Negative: verbose; Neutral: talkative

1.creeping like a snail is a simile used in this poem and it means the child is going to school unwillingly./a child is unwilling to go to school.

2. man becomes very frail and loses his physical strength when he becomes old, so much that his leggings that used to fit him snugly when he was in his youth are now too loose for him to wear, and that his shank has shrunk so much that this worldly stage is too big for a feeble actor like him. although, 'his youthful hose' just refers to his leggings/pants/ to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.

3.the words "sans" means "without." it is a french word that is often used in english even today. so he is saying that in the last age of a man, the man is without eyes, taste, or anything else. he also says that this is the "last stage of all" and that it is the stage that ends a man's "history."

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he believed if we do not fight back the britins would be in every household