LIFE AND LITERATURE

                                                                   EYES OF BLUE DOG                                                                         GABREIL GARCIA The basic plot of ''Eyes of a Blue Dog'' follows the relationship between a man and a woman, but the setting is not at all what might be expected. The relationship takes place solely in the dream world; both people meet and interact while dreaming, never able to connect in their waking lives. The p...

                                  WORD POWER: CONNOTATION AND DENOTATION  Connotations and Denotations The denotation of a word or phrase is its direct meaning. Another way to think of it is as the associations that a word usually elicits for most speakers of a language, as distinguished from those elicited for any individual speaker because of personal experience. A Connotation is a commonly understood cultural or emotional association that the same word means literally. The direct meaning is its denotation. The connotation of a word or phrase is the associated or secondary meaning. It is the idea that a word invokes for a person in addition to its literal meaning. In other words, the connotation of a word is an idea or feeling suggested by a particular word though it is not the direct meaning. It can be something suggested or implied by a word or thing, rather than being explicitly named or des...