Denotation and Connotation
Fiction and drama depend on language just as poetry does, but in a poem almost everything comes down to the particular meanings and implications, as well as sound and shape, of individual words.
Diction: the types of words, phrases, and sentence structures, and sometimes also of figurative language, that constitute any work of literature.
Denotation: the unambiguous or ˇ°dictionaryˇ± meaning of words.
Connotation: a suggestion of emotional coloration that imply our attitude and invite a similar one from our hearers.
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