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Denotation, Connotation, and Diction — Homework
Read "The Road Not Taken" (Robert Frost) at least twice, once silently and once aloud, before answering.
- 1.Give three words that share a denotation close to "thin" but carry different connotations, ranked most positive to most negative.
- 2.Explain why the word "sigh" in the final stanza is deliberately ambiguous.
- 3.In four to six sentences, explain how the speaker's admission that the roads were "really about the same" complicates the popular reading of this poem.
- 4.Choose one word from a song lyric you know and explain how a same-denotation synonym would change the feeling of the line.
- 5.Define denotation and connotation in one sentence each.
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