Denotative and connotative meanings this activity will help you meet this educational goal: you will analyze context to distinguish between the denotative and connotative meanings of words. Directions
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Activity
in this activity, you will select either a fiction text or a nonfiction text. as you read, identify words that have connotative meaning. analyze the context clues and discuss the denotative and connotative meanings of the words you select.

FICION TEXT: “A THUNDERSTROM” BY EMILY DICKINSON

NON-FICION TEXT: “WHAT IS REQUIRED: THE PRICE AND THE PROMISE OF CITIZENSHIP” BY BARACK OBAMA (excerpt)

answer: a

explanation: a because she needs to study for her test and get grades for it

i think it is who. im not sure to be honest

to eliminate ambiguous remote or broad reference it is necessary to focus on anaphoric reference. by definition "anaphoric reference means that a word in a text refers back to other ideas in the text for its meaning." the references should be clear and leave no room for ambiguity.

in the first case the pronoun it probably refers to the car but it has not been mentioned before so we should replace it for the car. in doing so the statement becomes clear.

in sentence number   two   the pronoun he refers to charles dickens the author. yet, the first half of the sentence is about the book a tale of two cities. to repair this it would be better to rephrase the first half : after i read   a tale of two cities by dickens, he so as to remove the remote reference.