ENGL 1000Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Literal And Figurative Language, Connotation
22 Dec 2014
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Is that image a symbol: connotation the emotional implications and association that words may carry , words have resonance in a culture, those connotations have to be public in order for them to be communicated, the connotations of particular words can refer back to other words in the story that come from the same family of words or family of connotations, slang, the word help can have private connotations; are different from the public connotations. In the house of usher, a lot of the words come from the same family of connotations; work together: landscape is starting to match the narrator"s psychological state, symbol that image or action which has significance or a range of reference beyond itself, to something that itself has its own meaning, emphasis amplitude, repetition, and positioning, the fern in why i live at the po is the least symbolic, the house in emily has characteristics that double the characteristics of.
