Reading
skills: Understanding denotation and connotation
B2U5 has given us a detailed explanation of denotation and connotation. Connotation goes hand in
hand with the authors aititude and thus constitues the major tone of the pasage, Successful reader
hoses this one instead of that one. To describe someone who is hard to be persuaded, we can use the
the
le may prefer the
Pay
nrds. of
Thankfully he did finish at Harrow and his errors there did not preclude him from going on to
De
anotation: The word thankfully is associated with a feeling of relief and pleasure, indicating the
2 In the end, both Einstein and Edison overcame their childhood persecution and went on to achieve
magnificent discoveries that benefit the entire world today. (Para. 3
Denot
use ot t
s too
b
ndicates the tremendous hardships Einstein and Edison suffered in their childhood
kes the
ind the
ng that Churchill and Lincol
sociated with a sense of great efforts and hard work,
before th
led
ade painstaking efforts to overcome a lot of difficulties
