a. Find the word at dictionary.com in the section that contains the American Heritage definitions. Which is the most helpful definition, given your thinking so far? Discuss why it's the most helpful in an extension of your first chart. (You're discussing denotation, the dictionary definition of the word.) Note: if you have access to the Oxford English Dictionary, use that, as it's the best dictionary, by far.
b. Now call upon your imagination. What are the connotations--the imaginative connotations--commonly held about your word? What are your own personal connotations? Discuss, as another extension of your first chart, how these connotations bear on your analysis in your chart so far.
2. Do a second chart, and include steps a and b as you do so. Don't forget that it's sometimes a good idea to change the guiding question at the top of your next chart, based on what you came up with in your previous chart.
Remember: short story test on Friday.
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