Question

A sixth-grade student encounters the following sentence in a short story.

She experienced a sense of déjà vu as she walked down the street of the strange new city.

The student asks the teacher about the meaning of déjà vu in the sentence. The teacher could best respond by advising the student to take which of the following steps?

A. Make note of the word in a vocabulary log, and then study the word after finishing the story.
B. Use context clues in the sentence to guess the meaning of the word, and then try out that meaning in the sentence.
C. Look up the word in the dictionary, and then paraphrase the sentence using the dictionary definition.
D. Break the word into its component parts, and then compare the parts to the meanings of similar known words.

Answer 1

The best step for the student is to use context clues to guess the meaning of 'déjà vu' in the sentence.

Step-by-step explanation:

The best step for the student to take when encountering the word 'déjà vu' in the sentence is to B. Use context clues in the sentence to guess the meaning of the word, and then try out that meaning in the sentence. Context clues are the details in the sentence or surrounding sentences that help to infer the meaning of an unfamiliar word. In this case, the mention of 'strange new city' suggests that the character is experiencing a feeling of familiarity or recognition.