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... connotation can express the intensity and coloring of the mood in which you write . Compare : A I would like to invite you to our home . B I would like to ask you to our house . Which version would you use toward a warm friend ? Most ...
... connotation can express the intensity and coloring of the mood in which you write . Compare : A I would like to invite you to our home . B I would like to ask you to our house . Which version would you use toward a warm friend ? Most ...
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... connotative and refers to no verifiable factual information . Poetry , too ( in fact , all imaginative literature ) , is connotative by its nature , since the writer is not only creating an imagined reality but feel- ing it as well ...
... connotative and refers to no verifiable factual information . Poetry , too ( in fact , all imaginative literature ) , is connotative by its nature , since the writer is not only creating an imagined reality but feel- ing it as well ...
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... ( connotations of approval and disapproval ) Rewrite passage b under Exercise 2 to produce the opposite connotation . Exercise 4 ( connotations of approval and disapproval - imitation ) Scramble your solution to Exercise 3 , using the ...
... ( connotations of approval and disapproval ) Rewrite passage b under Exercise 2 to produce the opposite connotation . Exercise 4 ( connotations of approval and disapproval - imitation ) Scramble your solution to Exercise 3 , using the ...
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