Onnotation and Denotation in Literature Directions: Select the correct text in the passage.
Which word with the meaning famished has the most negative connotation?
adapted from Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
The room in which the boys were fed, was a large stone hall, with a copper at one end: out
for the purpose, and assisted by one or two women, ladled the gruel at mealtimes. Of this festiv
porringer, and no more—except on occasions of great public rejoicing, when he had two ounce
The bowls never wanted washing. The boys polished them with their spoons till they shone
with such eager eyes, as if they could have devoured the very bricks of which it was composed
Oliver Twist and his starving companions suffered the tortures for three months: at last they got:
boy, who was tall for his age, and hadn't been used to that sort of thing, hinted darkly to his com

2. page 1: schlosser describes "just another gorgeous rocky mountain vista. and yet cheyenne mountain is hardly pristine." why do you think schlosser describes the beautiful cheyenne mountain scene in detail before describing the military installation that lies inside?

What is the central idea of paragraph 1 of the story?

Javier is writing a literary analysis of the secret garden. read this introduction to his essay. frances burnett’s “the secret garden” explores the challenges of a sickly, self-centered little girl named mary lennox. after mary’s parents die of cholera, she moves from india to england to live at her uncle’s estate in yorkshire. while living at the old estate, mary discovers an abandoned garden that belonged to her deceased aunt. tending to the neglected garden brings mary joy, and her health improves. through mary’s transformation, burnett presents nature as a symbol of rebirth and healing. which piece of textual evidence should javier use to support the claim made in the introduction? a. “‘it’s in the garden no one can go into,’ she said to herself. ‘it’s the garden without a door. he lives in there. how i wish i could see what it is like! ’” b. “in india she had always felt hot and too languid to care much about anything. the fact was that the fresh wind from the moor had begun to blow the cobwebs out of her young brain and to waken her up a little.” c. “mary felt lonelier than ever when she knew she was no longer in the house. she went out into the garden as quickly as possible, and the first thing she did was to run round and round the fountain flower garden ten times.” d. “‘it isn’t a quite dead garden,’ she cried out softly to herself. ‘even if the roses are dead, there are other things alive.’”