Connotation

Most male artists within the popular R&B/Hip-Hop genre during the early 1980’s use emotional and affectionate language when portraying women. However, over time a gradual shift in language appears, in which more objectifying and hypermasculine language is used as an alternative. Artists like Teddy Pendergrass and The Spinners, diverges from hypermasculine normatives by reclaiming their love for a specific woman even if their actions may cause their masculinity to be questioned by others. In 2016…

claims is that the English language makes a play on "black" and "white words". Moore writes a paragraph displaying how uses of words like blackly, black eye, and blacklist, carries a negative connotation as opposed to "white" words: which defines into honest, decent, and pure, which carry positive connotations. Another great argument put forward by Moore is that a large number of Americans use words like "nigger", "spook", "chink", and "spic" etc. Words like these are to denigrate one's race and…

‘remnant’ (Feliks Skryznecki, line 37) of the past, and underpins the beguiling quality of the postcard in demanding acknowledgment. The evocative verb of ‘haunts’ conveys the persona’s inability to refuse the magnetism of his homeland, implying connotations of death and prior existence. This infers that the persona’s memory and connection to is homeland is eroded and fragile. Skrzynecki galvanises the aspect of cultural disjointment in the rhetorical oxymoron, ‘What…

Mark Doty’s way of starting a poem is to talk about death and it has clearly caught the audience’s eye. “Tiara” is a poem about an alcoholic gay man who dies of AIDS in hospice. Doty doesn’t use any rhythm or rhyme, but with his use of allusions and symbolism, “Tiara” is an easy to understand poem with a high significance that gets the audience in and the tears flowing. “Tiara” is the type of poem to show the complexity of the AIDS epidemic in a simple and graceful way that affects the reader…

nearly the whole human race. Using the word ‘flood’ to describe people crossing America’s border not only has a negative connotation, but also dehumanizes people who might have good intentions for coming to the United States. These types of metaphors are prejudicial and is currently being used by political candidates who have anti-immigration views. This kind of negative connotation of the word ‘flood’ is inappropriate and unfair to be used as a means of explaining that immigrants are coming…

briefly using logos and diction to strengthen the backbone of his argument, but is not successful in making any strong points. Keith, however, makes an incredibly strong argument because she essentially immerses herself in the culture through her connotation, she spouts off facts just like the first author, but she utilizes logos much better than Crawford. In his work, Richard Crawford does an inadequate job of convincing the audience of his…

Bukowski expresses the themes of natural talent and that if it is right, you won’t have to try. We should not do something we do not enjoy, but something that comes natural that comes from the heart. In conveying this point, Bukowski uses imagery, connotation, perspective, and repetition. In the seventy line poem Bukowski states what it is to be a writer and that if you do not possess those qualities it is not for you. He also gives horrible reasons to become a writer. Among these reasons, “if…

Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio exhibits a similarity between two socioeconomic classes by giving a positive connotation to both city-life and country living. First, Winesburg, Ohio gives a positive outlook on city life outside the town of Winesburg. George Willard’s father, Tom Willard, stresses to his son the idea of venturing into the city for a fruitful life. Tom Willard says to George “You’re Tom Willard’s son and you’ll wake up” (Anderson 29). Tom wants his son to thrive, so Tom sees…

way we talk, creating these incorrect stereotypes. To began with the fact that for things that we describe as bad can also be called black. For example the phrase “blackening your reputation’ or “writing black words”, both of those have negative connotations. It is also noted that even in shows for children you can see that the good guy will wear white and the bad guy will wear black. One of the shows this occurred in was a show called “The Spectrum” and can cause these ideas in the minds of…

“The Victims” “The Victims” by Sharon Olds is written about a child that holds a heavy hate towards their father. Through the use of diction, Sharon Olds creates a tone of resentment in “The Victims”. The tone is set through both the connotation and denotation behind the specific words that she uses. Olds creatively practices these tools when she changes the construction of the language about half way through the poem. The beginning of the poem is written from the perspective of a child,…