Connotation vs Denotation
This is the dictionary definition of a word.
Denotation
Tone or mood?
The feelings of the reader.
Mood
The movie was 10,000 hours long.
Figurative Language
Japanese cartoons.
Anime
Is it Sweet? Savory? Salty? Sour? To be sure, use some of the 2000-4000 of these on your tongue.
Taste buds
This is the feelings attached to a word.
Connotation
Tone or Mood?
The feelings of the writer.
Tone
Her smile was as big as the moon.
Figurative language
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Cool Math
Pumping about 100,000 times per day, this muscle pushes about 2,000 gallons worth of blood through your body every 24 hours.
Heart
Is the connotation of the sentence positive or negative?
The school day groaned by as the students shuffled from one dull class to another.
Negative
What is the tone of the passage?
The floor creaked as Jessie crept across. Her breath, shallow and rapid, rasped in her ears as she peaked around the wall to spy down the hallway. The figure lurched forward from the depths of dark, and Jessie cried out a final time.
Spooky, creepy, etc.
A frog croaked a greeting as galloped by.
Connotative language
Born in Florida and with unique spiky yellow hair, these twins, who went viral on Tik Tok, are out here just trying to make it.
Island Boys
If you line these small tubes up, they would stretch 60,000 miles. That's a long way to carry blood!
Blood vessels
Is the connotation of the sentence positive or negative?
The school day flew by as the students skipped gleefully from class to class.
Positive
What is the tone of the passage?
"And the trees all died. They were orange trees. I don't know why they died, they just died. Something wrong with the soil possibly or maybe the stuff we got from the nursery wasn't the best. We complained about it. So we've got thirty kids there, each kid had his or her own little tree to plant and we've got these thirty dead trees. All these kids looking at these little brown sticks, it was depressing."
Sad, depressed, etc
Blood seeped out of the body and oozed across the floor.
Connotative language
These two girls are best friends. You know this by their pink, pink, pink, and glitter, glitter, glitter, and especially when they twirl twirl twirl.
Linda and Heather
The normal body temperature for a healthy adult.
98.6
Does the following sentence have a positive or negative connotation?
The turtles spiraled down the dank, septic drain as the pond drained into nothingness.
Negative
What is the tone of the passage?
“Despite the civil unrest happening in my city, I believe I can make things better and see real change in my lifetime.”
Optimistic, positive, etc
Make sure plastic wrap is removed before placing the food inside the oven.
Technical language
This song sounds familiar. This is what it is called when one song is changed or combined with another song.
Remix
Saliva or spit