Connotation and Denotation

Connotation is

• The feeling a word creates

• The dictionary definition

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9.1.1

Denotation

• The feeling associated with a word.

• The dictionary definition of a word.

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9.1.1

Which connotation is more positive? We saw ____ animals in the animal house.

• fascinating

• weird

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9.1.1

Which connotation is more negative? I ate a ______ sandwich.

• moist

• soggy

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9.1.1

Which word has the most positive connotation?

“a woman who has adjusted to many things in life and overcome many more, her face is full of strength. She has, we can see, wit and faith of a kind that keep her eyes lit and full of interest and expectancy. She is, in a word, a ________ woman. Her bearing is perhaps most like the noble bearing of the women of the Hereros of Southwest Africa - rather as if she imagines that as she walks she still bears a basket or a vessel upon her head.”

• fine

• pretty

• cute

• beautiful

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9.1.1

McDonald's is an inexpensive meal. If you change the word inexpensive to cheap, the word now has a ____ connotation.

• positive
• negative

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9.1.2

I recognized the familiar smell of my roommate's cooking. If you change the word smell to stench, the word now has a ____________ connotation.

• positive
• negative

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9.1.2

Write connotation that is positive: ​

Our trip to the amusement park was ​ ​ (a)   .

• wonderful
• fine

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9.1.1 and 9.1.2.

Write a positive connotation:

I enjoy finding ways to save money by being ​ (a)   .

​

• thrifty
• cheap

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9.1.1 and 9.1.2.

Write a negative connotation:

I ate a​ (a)   sandwich.

• soggy
• moist

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9.1.1 and 9.1.2.