Connotation Positive, Negative, Neutral
If a teacher says, "We have a challenge today,"
it sounds exciting (Positive)
Clue: The media universally branded the high-profile court case against Bruno Richard Hauptmann as "The Trial of the Century."
Response: What is a metaphor for the immense cultural impact and media circus surrounding the legal proceedings?
Clue: Headlines frequently described how "tragedy knocked on the door" of the Lindbergh homegrief held the nation captive."
Response: What is the personification of tragedy and grief as active, invading forces?
Slender
What is the connotation positive neutral or negative
connotation is fitness
positive
"We have a problem today,"
it sounds stressful (Negative).
Clue: Journalists described the immediate media descent onto the small, quiet town of Flemington like a swarm of locusts.
Response: What is a simile describing how the press overwhelmed the local community and stripped away all privacy?
Clue: Journalists often wrote about how the "eyes of the world were watching" the tiny courthouse in Flemington, New Jersey.
Response: What is the personification of the global media and public attention as a single, giant entity?
scrawny
What is the connotation positive neutral or negative
negative
Too thin, not healthy
you are so thrifty and smart with your allowance
positive connotation
Clue: Biographers noted that in the wake of the kidnapping, Charles Lindbergh's heavily guarded estate became like a fortress or a gilded cage.
Response: What is a simile describing the loss of freedom and absolute isolation the family felt due to security fears?
Clue: Contemporary articles frequently remarked that "justice was blind" during the chaotic, media-driven investigation.
Response: What is the classic personification of the legal system used to critique the fairness of the trial?
Unique / Special
positive
connotation is for the good quality of something
Clue: When the defense described the state's handwriting analysis as "voodoo science," they were trying to attach these negative connotations to legitimate forensic work.
Response: Negative
connotations (reference/ feeling) of superstition, trickery, fraud, and unreliable guesswork, magic?
Clue: Writers often described the custom, hand-built wooden ladder used by the kidnapper as a "stairway to hell" or a "gallows on rungs."
Response: What is a metaphor for the instrument used to steal the child and ultimately seal the fate of both the baby and the killer?
Clue: Observers claimed that the tension inside the courtroom during Hauptmann's cross-examination was "thick enough to cut with a knife."
Response: What is hyperbole used to describe the suffocating, dramatic atmosphere of the courtroom?
negative
The arrogant celebrity completely ignored his adoring fans
negative
Clue: Contemporary accounts described the public's obsessive thirst for details and daily trial updates like a fever gripping the nation.
Response: What is a simile illustrating the mass hysteria and collective obsession with the case?
Clue: During the trial, reporters described the small town of Flemington as being buried under a "mountain of telegrams" and legal paperwork.
Response: What is hyperbole highlighting the sheer volume of public correspondence and legal documentation generated by the case?
Chatty / Social
neutral to positive