Connotation and Denotation
The English Club
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0:00 hi welcome to the English Club today's lesson is going to be all about connotation versus denotation the denotation of a word is the actual
0:11 dictionary definition the way that I like to remember it is denotation equals dictionary or D for dictionary
0:22 the denotation of a word or phrase uses the literal meaning for instance there is an elephant in the room
0:31 in this picture we have a literal elephant in a room that would be the denotation most of us have probably heard the
0:40 saying there is an elephant in the room so you'd only use the denotation of this if there was an actual literal live elephant in the room
0:49 let's move on to connotation connotation is the way a word or phrase makes you feel some words make us feel uplifted others
0:59 may be sad maybe we don't have an opinion on the word or maybe they make us feel not so great basically the connotation is all about
1:08 the feeling that a word gives you the way I remember connotation is connotation equals connection and that connection is how I feel about a word
1:20 look at an example together the word old we're going to make a connotation scale here and we're going to label it with negative positive and
1:30 neutral right in the middle the word old has various synonyms some of them have different connotations for example we have the word mature
1:40 we have the word decrepit and aged the word decrepit can be harsh and rude it definitely has more of a negative connotation
1:51 mature on the other hand is more positive it might represent somebody as wise or skilled aged Falls more neutral because we don't
2:00 associate it with a positive or A negative connotation one more example the word Young we have inexperienced
2:10 [Music] these synonyms have different connotations so let's talk about them blooming would fall more on the positive
2:18 scale because when I hear the word blooming I think of fresh and upbeat inexperience is more of a negative connotation it gives the idea that
2:28 somebody might not be as skilled at something Who falls in the middle of our scale because it's not positive or negative
2:36 it's just new alright let's do a quick recap here so denotation equals the dictionary definition of a word it has its literal
2:46 meaning whereas connotation equals connection or that positive negative or neutral feeling that we associate to a word
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