Sophia Learning
Sophia: Evaluating the Connotation
This lesson focuses on evaluating the connotation of a vocabulary word. It defines connotation and gives an example. It details three steps: read the word in context, determine the tone of the overall reading, and compare the tone with...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Reference Materials Printed and Electronic
Learn how to use dictionaries, glossaries, and thesauri in order to determine meanings of words and phrases, including their denotations, connotations, and etymologies.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Reference Materials: Printed and Electronic
You will learn how to use dictionaries, glossaries, and thesauri in order to determine meanings of words and phrases, including their denotations, connotations, and etymologies.
Other
Streeter: Semiotics and Advertising
A slide show that offers a good study of connotation and how it refers to semiotics. Symbols are not the things they represent. L.11-12.5b Nuance
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: From Courage to Freedom:frederick Douglass's 1845 Autobiography
In this 3-lesson plan unit, students will read Douglass's narrative. They will analyze Douglass's vivid first-hand accounts of the lives of slaves and the behavior of slave owners to see how he successfully contrasts reality with...
Other
The University of Wales: Semiotics for Beginners
Click on Denotation, Connotation, and Myth. A discourse in the use of "denotation" and "connotation" as they refer to semiotics and cultural myths.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Diction and Tone (English Iii Reading)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will learn how to find the tone in a passage using a close reading strategy. They will also look at diction and discover that examining a writer's...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Diction and Tone (English Ii Reading)
This lesson will help students identify diction and tone in their reading and will help them answer these questions: What does the author mean? What is the author's attitude about what he or she is writing? How will my understanding of a...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Denotation and Connotation (English I Reading)
Distinguish between the denotative (dictionary) meaning of a word and its connotative (emotions or associations that are implied rather than literal) meaning. L.9-10.5b nuances
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Denotation and Connotation (English Ii Reading)
You will be able to distinguish between the denotative (dictionary) meaning of a word and its connotative (emotions or associations that are implied rather than literal) meaning. L.9-10.5b nuances
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Denotation and Connotation (English I Reading)
This lesson focuses on denotation and connotation including the abilty to distinguish words according to their emotional or cultural meaning. Your ability to do so can help you understand the author's purpose or more about a character in...
Other
Fu Jen Univ.: Poetic Elements: Denotation and Connotation: Figures of Speech
This site gives short definitions of the terms denotation and connotation. Also gives definitions for many figures of speech. Finally, includes discussion and study questions for a few poems at the bottom of the page. L.11-12.5b Nuance
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Diction and Tone (English I Reading)
In this lesson, you'll see how a writer's tone, diction, denotation, and connotation work together to create meaning for you as a reader.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Connotation: Lesson 3
This lesson introduces connotation and provides examples. It is 3 of 3 in the series titled "Connotation."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Determining Denotation
This lesson explains how to determine the denotation of words; it defines denotation and offers a plan of action: look up the word in the dictionary, read all meanings paying attention to parts of speech, and compare each of these...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Literary Text: Diction and Tone
This lesson deals primarily with diction and tone and how to recognize them in your reading. Tone is largely determined by diction or the word choices a writer makes. The process of choosing the right word involves denotation and...
University of Victoria (Canada)
The U Vic Writer's Guide: General Literary Terms
The University of Victoria's Writer's Guide includes an extensive list of literary and rhetorical terms. List can be displayed alphabetically.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Polish Tone, Style, and Figurative Language (English Ii Writing)
In this lesson, students will learn strategies for evaluating and revising the tone, style, and figurative language in an essay.
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Denotation
Brief definition of the term denotation provided. Several examples given and a link to the term connotation provided.
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Connotation
This is a glossary entry for the term "Connotation" including the definition and an example.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Denotation: Lesson 3
This lesson introduces denotation and provides examples. It is 3 of 3 in the series titled "Denotation." CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.4, L.9-10.5b nuances, L.11-12.5b Nuance
Other
Prezi: Tone, Diction, and Analysis of Word Choice
Slideshow explores the connection between word choice and the author's tone.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: A Gift for Mom and Dad
Following a reading of O. Henry's "Gift of the Magi," students write an expository essay based on the connotative definition of "gift." The essay is then presented as a holiday gift. The activity can be adapted to a variety of occasions...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: 7.1: Tone and Style
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Gain a better understanding of tone and style by understanding formal and informal style, learning to write clearly, correcting vague sentences, distinguishing...