From Silent Spring Review

What happens to the adjective sick if you add the suffix -ness to it?

What would a blight most likely do to a farmer’s crops?

What is one meaning of the Old English suffix -ness?

Stillness is the absence of noise or motion

Which of these words tells how a person with maladies is most likely to feel?

Which sentence has a correct verb form in the subjunctive mood?

Something that spoils, prevents growth, or destorys

Deserted means to be empty or abandoned

In the selection from Silent Spring, why are doctors in the town puzzled?

Connotation is the dictionary definition and Denotation is the cultural meaning.

What is most likely the cause of the great changes that happen to the town in the selection from Silent Spring?

Counterclaim agrees with a given statement.

Illness or disease

Foreshadowing is a warning of hint of a future event.

Which of these sentences uses the subjunctive mood?

Subjunctive mood is a verb form that expresses a wish, suggestion, or hypothetical situation

from Silent Spring, what is the town like before everything begins to change?

Which sentence best illustrates the meaning of deserted?

Very badly affected by trouble or illness

Imagery is a visual in a movie.

Puzzled means...

the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic.

Indicative mood is a verb form used to make statements that are assumed to be true, or to ask questions directly

a statement in which a writer presents an assertion as truthful to substantiate an argument

In the selection from Silent Spring, how do plants change after the town changes?

In the selection from Silent Spring, how do animal populations change after the town changes?

A warning or hint is a context clue