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CONNOTATION AND ANNOTATION IN JEAN WEBSTER’S
DADDY-LONG-LEGS

Webster made the book extremely interesting with positive, negative, and
neutral connotations– a literary device that allowed the author to convey
her ideas and create deeper meanings without directly stating them
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Example 1: “lots of very clever men get smashed up in Wall Street
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Based on the context, it’s clear that the phrase is
supposed to be interpreted figuratively and not literally
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The denotative meaning of made is to have created or formed something,
whereas as a positive connotation, it means to have won acceptance as
Judy was accepted into the basketball team
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Hear as a denotation means to be able to perceive a
sound, but as a connotation, it is used to express gaining information
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So, Judy writes to Daddy-Long-Legs that even though he wanted to get
some information from her once a month, Judy sends him letters pretty
often
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Judy calls Mr
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The connotation is negative based on the context; the girl
isn’t happy that he’s adamant about not saying a thing about himself
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Example 5: “Are you still harping on that scholarship?”
Literally, harping is used to describe the action of playing the harp – a
musical instrument
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