Write four pairs of sentences that have the same denotative meaning but different connotative meanings. (8 sentences total) Example 1: Marisol lost a ton of weight, and now she’s looking very skinny. Marisol is looking very slender after her diet. Example 2: My daughter is tenacious, which causes others to follow her lead. My daughter's stubbornness causes others to do what she says.

Explanation:

Connotation is the emotional and imaginative association surrounding a word.

Denotation is the strict dictionary meaning of a word.

The media were swarming around the pileup on the highway to capture every conceivable injury for the evening news.

The journalists were on the scene at the highway crash to document the incident for the evening news.

Photographers stood patiently along the walkway, awaiting the arrival of the Oscar nominees.

The paparazzi lined the walkway anxiously poised to snap the Oscar nominees.

America's Midwest is often referred to as the heartland by Washington congressmen.

America's Midwest is often referred to as flyover country by DC politicos.

The rat tried to get me to loan him my cell phone!

The rat chewed the charger cord to my cell phone!

The seventh stanza is the same stanza as the first. It tells that everything after this incident return back to normal. The repetition of the first stanza indicates that all things in Wonderland have gone back to the way they were before the Jabberwocky came.

Explanation:

My goodness. That is a strange poem.