DENOTATION AND CONNOTATION

What is the meaning of connotation?

• Emotional meaning of a word

• An emotional outburst

• Official meaning of a word

• Refers to emotional atmosphere produced by an author’s use of language

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

What is the meaning of denotation?

• It represents something else (emble, token, etc.)

• The emotion of a word

• The art of lasagna baking

• The official meaning of a word

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

I am now becoming an elephant, gaining every week pounds by pounds.

• connotative

• denotative

Twilight_______the light from the sky at the end of the day when night is just beginning.

• denotes

• connotes

The teacher’s kingdom include thirty-seven smart and intelligent pupils and a conducive classroom.

• denotative

• connotative

As role models to your younger siblings, you have to plant in them the value of kindness.

• denotative

• connotative

Let us intensify and keep the fire burning into our hearts.

• denotative

• connotative

A fire of unknown cause ate the thirty village houses.

• denotative

• connotative

Her first singing performance served as the dawn of her career.

• denotative

• connotative

At dawn the beauty of the nature starts to unfold.

• denotative

• connotative