Connotation
Connotation is a meaning of an object. What you would automatically associate the object with. Almost all objects have a connotation
Best Example?
The Classic Kitchen Knife!
When you see a kitchen knife in a close
up shot in a film it will, most of the time,
relate to being a soon murder weapon.
Obviously it could easily just be for cooking
the characters dinner but we have been watching
films all our life with knifes as murder
weapons so commonly and naturally this would
be our first thought.
Denotation
The actual definition of what something is.
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