When might you use connotation in your writing?

when you are trying to persuade
when you are using facts and statistics
when you are writing research reports
when you are trying to explain

A: when you are trying to persuade.

 Connotation might be used in a writing with the purpose to persuade because a word carries a variety of associations and meanings besides the denotation, which is the literal meaning found in the dictionary. The connotative meaning helps create emotions in the reader, and, if the word is chosen correctly, it can be a point in persuasion.

gandhi's the story of my experiments with truth puts us in the first person. this allows us to really understand the characters and feel like we are living within the story. if it was in third person we may have felt as if we were just watching the story unfold. since it is in first person it allows us the opportunity to feel as if we really are a part of the story.

a line graph will be best to show the income.