Vocabulary Week 3: Terms 17-24 ENG II
17. CONNOTATION –
noun
The emotional implications and associations that a word may carry
18. DENOTATION – noun
The direct dictionary meaning of a word
19. DESCRIPTIVE DETAILS- noun
A rhetorical strategy using sensory details to portray a person, place, or thing
20. EVALUATIVE- adjective
of or relating to judgment, value and choice
21. EVOCATIVE-
adjective
Tending to call up or produce (a feeling, a memory, a picture)
Vocabulary Week 3: Terms 17-24 ENG II
22. EXPOSITORY 1.
adjective
serving to convey information or to explain
23. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE -
noun
Language in which figures of speech (such as metaphors, similes, and hyperbole) freely
occur.
24. UNDERSTATEMENT-
noun
A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less
important or serious than it is.