Marcus Mill 's Article On Connotations And Connotation

Twenty-two year old singer/songwriter Dodie Clark has become internet-famous with her cheerful jingles and poetic introspection. With over a million subscribers, her youtube channel- affectionately named “doddleoddle”- draws in countless individuals to bear witness to her hours of musical content. Dodie is known, in fact, for her ability to write lyrics which are poetry first and music second. Clark, in her 2016 song “When,” employs metaphor to invoke imagery, euphemism, and indirect self-addressment in an effort to articulate her plea that she finally begin to take initiative and live her life

The Picture of Dorian Gray is a novel written by Oscar Wilde in 1890. It is about a young man named Dorian Gray who owns a portrait of him. Overtime, the sins that the man committed is shown in the alteration of the portrait, while the man himself still appears young and unchanged. This novel is filled with figurative language, so i will be highlighting 3 examples of figurative language in the novel.

Color drives a significant amount of the meaning in this poem, as the idea is used in

The 1920 was a time of major cultural and moral change. In Brave New World by Aldous

Words are all around us. Words define the way we describe the way we articulate, one such example being this very paper, the way we interact with others, and most importantly, the way we feel or think. Adjectives: the words that give our world emotional meaning beyond the literal definition; that is connotation. Connotation is most evident in words to which we associate our most extreme emotions. Whether it is witnessing the greatest of fireworks, an elaborate collection of lights and sounds, or seeing truckfuls of babies being dumped into a blistering hot fire, the word we would use to describe these two events, fire, will forever be emotionally seen differently by whomever witnesses it. A word can develop in meaning, once meaning one thing to then mean something completely different. In fact, In Elie Wiesel’s “Night”, Elie’s definition of the word ‘fire’ changes from that of a danger to one’s self to that of destruction and revenge.

Fitzgerald uses connotation, simile, kinetic imagery and temporal diction in the passage to suggest that in 1920’s American culture, displaying a prosperous outward appearance is the only viable means of achieving one’s goals. During the rightly named “Roaring 20’s”, America undergoes a progressive societal metamorphosis. However, the attractive nature of material wealth still holds tight within American minds. Gatsby longs for both authority over his peers, as well as a favored status within his class. It is implied through connotation, simile, temporal diction, and kinetic imagery that he can only reach these objectives by having a successful exterior profile.

Connotation an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning. All Mexicans can dance. All white girls like starbucks. All police have a racial bias towards African Americans. These words stereotypes inflict pain and anger towards the people it is intended for. The negative affects of someone stereotyping a group of individuals is the idea that all African Americans should fear the police. That they should despise them, hate them. When in actuality its those few individuals who are the bad sour apple of the bunch who are creating this idea that police want to inflict punitive harm towards minority groups. Especially African Americans. This problem is so serious that even in 2014 to 16 African americans are being sectioned out by the police and being pre-judged for a crime they didn't commite.

In the short story "The Ascent", the author, Ron Rash, uses figurative language throughout the story that urges the reader to believe that the the whole story revolves around a theme of being unlucky. First, Ron Rash has added the simile, “A woman was in the passenger seat, her body bent forward like a horseshoe” (Rash 280). For centuries, horseshoes have been associated with luck when they are upright. However when horseshoes are bent over that is associated with luck running out. In the story, the fifth grade protagonist, Jared, is wandering in the woods and stumbles upon an airplane that crashed a week before. When Jared walks in, he sees the dead woman, bent over like a horseshoe, which represents her luck running out. Considering

The poem “Juggler” describes how the tricks the juggler acts out for the crowd amaze and intrigue them. In the poem “Juggler” by Richard Wilbur, the author uses imagery, figurative language and tone to describe the juggler as someone who brings happiness and fun to others.

When Nick describes the Buchanan’s home he uses white a lot. In literature, white are often used for goodness and relaxing. And the purpose of the language he uses are all for creating the type of atmosphere. Nick describes parts of the room with white multiple times in the passage. “The windows were ajar and gleaming white,” Nick describes and he also mentions “the frosted wedding cake ceiling”. The appearance of the color white gives the scene a feeling of elegance and also a majestic quality. Nick also emphasizes the existence of

This past Tuesday we were placed into groups and asked to continue reading Metaphors written by Lakoff and Johnson, after we had read some of it as a class. While reading this book as a group, we took interest in the metaphorical concept time is money. We discussed that even though we couldn’t use time as a form of actual currency, we spend it every day whether we choose to or not. After, we discussed how we can either spend our time wisely, preparing for classes, or we could spend our time having fun. Meaning that we should budget our time as though it was money. Following this discussion, we took interest with the last paragraph on page eight. Specifically, we took interest in the statement, “We are using our everyday experiences with

Gloria Naylor is saying that the way she has learned about words and heard them were not always as the negative word they actually are. That the way she first heard a word or who says it around her has an impact on the meaning individually for her. I do agree with this because just like how you talk or the words you actually say, are impacted by those around you. So why is your meaning of a word not effected by those around you

Most words in language have evolved to have at least two meanings. There is the denotation of a word, which is the literal meaning of the word or its “dictionary definition.” Also, all words carry a connotation, which refers to the associations that are connected to a certain word or the emotional suggestions relating to it. A word's connotation can differ depending on context and the region in which it is used. Recently there has been a spike in the amount of connotative language being used in news headlines. Three headlines that stand out with their obvious use of connotative language are, “NFL kneelers and the left have it all wrong” (Fox News, Sept. 27, 2017), “The New York Times has a Communism fetish” (The Weekly Standard, Sept. 26, 2017), and “Trump has climate change weirdos everywhere freaking out” (The American Spectator, Aug. 30, 2017). These headlines use connotative language specifically to create political and cultural bias with their readers/viewers.

Colour imagery supports the language choice for both subjectsfem and creates a symbolic difference between them. Rich uses the metaphor of, ‘Bright topaz denizens’ (l.2), denoting that they bejewel the panels they ‘prance’ (l.1) on, and create a clear contrast between their orange and black coats against the ‘world of green’ (l.2). Aunt Jennifer is associated with pale colours of white and grey, created by a basic lexical field, with ‘wool’ (l.5) and ‘ivory needle’ (1.6). The juxtaposition emphasises the difference between the plain, dependent and subservient outward

It is the code that fixes the meaning, not color itself. This also has wider implications for the theory of representation and meaning in language. It means that signs themselves cannot fix meaning. Instead, meaning depends on the relation between a sign and a concept which is fixed by a code.