Connotation

can repay for what England did for us. For example, "A dust whom England bore, shaped and made aware." England was being personified as the mother of the soldier whom the mother created of what is today's soldiers identity. Rupert uses positive connotation of England being a mother of the soldier in which the maternal qualities are a loving and a caring mother in which it attempts to informed us of what England did for us and also attempts to persuade us to participate into…

oppression throughout history go hand in hand with some of the same core beliefs that Fairman expressed in “Saying it is hurtful, banning it is worse.” Coupled with these ideas in mind the two had one common theme: words aren’t the culprit of negative connotations, the real power behind a word is the meaning. “Sexism is not something existing independently in English it exists within people’s minds.” Feminism has taken the last few years by storm. Not only has the movement gained popularity…

not mean this is the only meaning for the word. Two sons are known as being brothers of each other. Even though these two people will fight with each other, they are still brother. This is the literal meaning for the word brother, but there is connotation that makes this word much more meaningful. Some believe the word brother also stands for a someone who will fight for you. This can be seen when a person will physically fight for you for example soccer or hand-to-hand combat. This is the…

Thatcher’s eulogy honoring Ronald Reagan she describes how Reagan’s great leadership unites the nation and gets everyone out of the Cold War. Thatcher employs juxtaposition between those who doubted Reagan and his actual actions and a negative connotation on the soviets as rhetorical techniques to convey the strong alliance and similar mindset between Britain and The United States. Thatcher illustrates that Reagan was a substantial leader and was able to unite the United States and ultimately…

He set up a gloomy and stoic environment and then compares this with a rose bush that possessed a “fragile beauty” (2), and covered in “delicate gems” (2). The word fragile carries connotations of youth and grace, which directly contrasts with the dark and sturdy image of Puritan society. Gems possess one purpose, to beautify an object, a superficial goal that is viewed as a terrible sin. They believed that one should be selfless and…

twins holding tremulously to each other.”(Golding pg.93) It further shows the reader that Sam and Eric are followers because they follow orders. The word tremulously, literally means shaking or quivering slightly but it has a sad, fearful, or mean connotation. Here we can see that the twins have a positive and nice attitude because when they are told to do something they do it with no back talk. Golding reveals this attitude when he writes, “ We ran as fast as we could. Bashed into things the…

mourning of the deaths of she and Pyramus. The text of "Pyramus and Thisbe" continues to state, “Mulberries always turn black as they ripen.” Here, as before, “always” relays ideas of indefinite continuity, and one typically associates “black” with connotations of mourning. This, in turn, allows Ovid to develop a hopeless tone in relation to the future, as he concentrates upon mourning the loss of Pyramus and Thisbe rather than upon repeating their mistakes. On the contrary, the prologue of…

rhetoric specifically logos when he talked he was stating a lot of facts and just telling the audience what was true so, turning into the bias side he was not bias at all because using facts and what you know is not bias. Also when he talked about connotation nothing really much what connotative in the article. In Paragraph 7 sentence 2, the author says that “Since 2006, white inmates serving two to four years for one count of third degree burglary were released…

In “The Cross of Snow”, Longfellow uses symbolism, personification, and words with connotation to set the mood of the poem. The author uses these devices to help explain the theme of the poem being, remember the ones you lost, and don’t forget about them. Longfellow uses personification to show his feelings through saying “The face of one…

is in ecofeminism: oppositional and mutually exclusive value dualisms. By placing greater value on one over the other, there will always be words that will be attributed towards man and words attributed towards woman. The connotation of human represented by man, and the connotation of nature represented by woman is just one of these examples that challenge deep…