Using Language

Taken from Maryland HSA Finish Line English.

3.2.1 The student will choose the level of language, formal to informal, appropriate for a specific audience, situation, or purpose.

3.2.2 The student will differentiate connotative from denotative meanings of words.

3.2.3 The student will describe how readers or listeners might respond differently to the same words.

Read the excerpt below.

At night Lena's father would enchant her with hypnotic stories from his own childhood, tales of that distant country acrtoss the faraway sea. Her father told legends of noble heroes on righteous quests, kings and queens dispensing justice, warrior princesses and honorable deeds. After each story, he would remind her, "These stories are all the gold I have to give you. These stories are your inheritance."

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